puffing
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
blowing tobacco smoke out into the air
they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing
Types & categories
- smoking hypernym
Related & opposite
- puff derivation
Sense 2 noun
an act of forcible exhalation
Types & categories
- breathing out hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | puff |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | smoking |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | gasp |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | snort |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | chuff |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | breathing out |