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puffs out

puffs out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of puff out.

Meaning of puff out

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.

Questions about puffs out

What is puffs out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Puffs out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of puff out.

Words near puffs out in the dictionary

  1. pufflets
  2. puffling
  3. pufflings
  4. puffs
  5. puffs one's chest
  6. puffs out
  7. puffs the magic dragon
  8. puffs up
  9. puffy
  10. puffy sticks
  11. PUFs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puffs out (page history and authors); puff out (page history and authors). 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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