puffed

• IPA^(key): /pʌft/

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• Rhymes: -ʌft

From puff +‎ -ed.

puffed

1. simple past and past participle of puff

puffed (comparative more puffed, superlative most puffed)

1. Inflated or swollen.
2. Consisting of a puff. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. Gathered up into rounded ridges.

   The dress had puffed sleeves.

4. (of cereals) Expanded by the use of steam.

Shortened from puffed out.

puffed (comparative more puffed, superlative most puffed)

1. (informal) Synonym of puffed out (panting from exercise)

• depuff