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puff out

puff out verb: to inflate.

Verb

puff out (third-person singular simple present puffs out, present participle puffing out, simple past and past participle puffed out)

  1. (ambitransitive) To inflate.
    • He puffed out his cheeks.
  2. (transitive) To blow briefly and lightly.
    • He puffed out a perfect smoke ring.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To emit puffs of smoke or exhaust
    • The engine puffed out white smoke.

puff out meaning in Malayalam

puff out in Malayalam

swell (out), bulge, stick out
ഉജ്ജൃംഭിക്കുക, വീർക്കുക, മുഴയ്ക്കുക, വീർത്തു വെളിയിലേക്കു ചാടുക, പൊങ്ങുക, മുഴച്ചുന്തുക

Forms of puff out

third-person singular presentpuffs out
present participlepuffing out
past participlepuffed out
pastpuffed out

Origin of puff out

puff + out

Questions about puff out

What does puff out mean?
Puff out means to inflate.
What is puff out in Malayalam?
Puff out in Malayalam is ഉജ്ജൃംഭിക്കുക, വീർക്കുക, മുഴയ്ക്കുക. See Puff out meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is puff out?
Puff out is a verb.
What is the past tense of puff out?
The past tense of puff out is puffed out.

Words near puff out in the dictionary

  1. puff
  2. puff adder
  3. puff adders
  4. puff and darts
  5. puff one's chest
  6. puff out
  7. puff paste
  8. puff pastes
  9. puff pastries
  10. puff pastry
  11. puff piece

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puff out (page history and authors); puff out (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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