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This tool relates English terms to concepts from the SUMO ontology by means of mappings to WordNet synsets.

According to WordNet, the verb "puff" has 8 sense(s).

201812197 make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego".

200263682 to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests".

201198616 smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe".

200797303 speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man".

201065272 praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production".

201199009 suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette".

200005526 breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily".

200006802 blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain".

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