Synonyms of the word

puff

• n. (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
• n. (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
• n. (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
• n. (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
• n. (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement about an object's quality.
• n. (dated, slang) A puffer, one who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at auction to bid up…
• n. A puffball.
• n. A powder puff.
• n. (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
• n. (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
• n. (derogatory, slang, Britain, particularly northern UK) a homosexual; a poof.
• n. (slang, dated, Britain) Life.
• v. (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
• v. (intransitive) To pant.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To advertise.
• v. To blow as an expression of scorn.
• v. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
• v. To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
• v. To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
• v. To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
• v. To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
• v. To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
• v. To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.

aspiration

• n. The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or…
• n. The action of aspirating.
• n. (phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.

bedclothes

• n. Sheets, blankets, quilts or other coverings used on a bed.

bedding

• n. The textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc.
• n. Any material used by or provided to animals to lie on.
• n. (geology) a structure occurring in granite and similar massive rocks that allows them to split in well-defined…
• n. (horticulture) the temporary planting of fast-growing plants into flower beds to create colourful, temporary,…
• v. present participle of bed.

blast

• n. A violent gust of wind.
• n. A forcible stream of air from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.
• n. A hit from a pipe.
• n. The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
• n. The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an…
• n. An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
• n. An explosive charge for blasting.
• n. A loud, sudden sound.
• n. A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
• n. (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.
• n. (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
• n. A flatulent disease of sheep.
• n. (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) An algorithm for comparing primary biological sequence information.
• v. (transitive) To confound by a loud blast or din.
• v. (intransitive) To make a loud noise.
• v. (transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.
• v. (transitive) To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
• v. (transitive) To curse; to damn.
• v. (transitive) (sci-fi) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
• v. (soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
• v. To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
• v. (transitive) To blight or wither.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be blighted or withered.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To blow, for example on a trumpet.
• interj. Blast it; damn it.
• n. (cytology) An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).

blow

• adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
• v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
• v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
• v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
• v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
• v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
• v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
• v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
• v. (intransitive) To explode.
• v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
• v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
• v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
• v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
• v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
• v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
• v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
• n. A strong wind.
• n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
• n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
• n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
• n. The act of striking or hitting.
• n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
• n. A damaging occurrence.
• v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
• n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
• n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
• n. A bloom, state of flowering.

bluster

• n. Pompous, officious talk.
• n. A gust of wind.
• n. Fitful noise and violence.
• v. To speak or protest loudly.
• v. To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
• v. To blow in strong or sudden gusts.

boast

• n. A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.
• n. (squash (sport)) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
• v. (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
• v. (transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
• v. (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
• v. (squash (sport)) To play a boast shot.
• v. (ergative) To possess something special.
• v. (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
• v. (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form…

brag

• adj. First-rate.
• adj. (archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
• adv. (obsolete) proudly; boastfully.
• n. A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
• n. The thing which is boasted of.
• n. (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
• v. (intransitive) To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done.
• v. (transitive) To boast of.

chuff

• adj. (Britain) Surly.
• adj. (Britain, dialect) stupid; churlish.
• n. A coarse or stupid fellow.
• v. (intransitive) To make noisy puffing sounds, as of a steam locomotive.
• v. (Britain, informal) To break wind.
• v. To intermittantly extinguish and reignite a powder charge.
• n. (scriptwriting, uncountable) Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development,…
• n. A breathy noise produced by a tiger, similar in function to a cat's purr.
• adj. (Britain) Pleased.
• adj. (obsolete) Swollen with fat.
• adj. (vulgar slang, of cheeks) Swollen.
• n. (vulgar slang) The vagina.
• n. (vulgar slang) Anus.

comforter

• n. A person who comforts someone who is suffering.
• n. (US) A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt.
• n. (old fashioned, mostly UK) A woollen scarf for winter.
• n. (Britain, New Zealand, Australia) A pacifier.

drag

• n. (uncountable) Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it.
• n. (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
• n. (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body,…
• n. (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
• n. (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle…
• n. (countable, slang) Horse-drawn wagon or buggy.
• n. (countable, slang) Street, as in 'main drag'.
• n. (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, for training hounds to follow scents.
• n. (countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
• n. A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
• n. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
• n. (metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
• n. (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
• n. (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the…
• n. Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially,…
• n. A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
• n. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
• v. (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly.
• v. To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
• v. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
• v. To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
• v. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
• v. (computing) To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.
• v. To inadvertently rub or scrape on a surface.
• v. (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
• v. To fish with a dragnet.
• v. To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of…
• v. To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
• v. (figuratively) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
• v. (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
• n. (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
• v. To perform as a drag queen or drag king.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

elate

• v. (transitive) To make joyful or proud.
• v. (transitive) To lift up; raise; elevate.
• adj. elated; exultant.
• adj. (obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.

exhalation

• n. The act or process of exhaling; breathing out.
• n. That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam;.
• n. A bright phenomenon; a meteor.

expiration

• n. The act of expiring.
• n. The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth.
• n. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
• n. (euphemistic) The last emission of breath; death.
• n. A cessation, extinction, ending.
• n. That which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.

fancy

• n. The imagination.
• n. An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea.
• n. An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; an impression.
• n. A whim.
• n. Love or amorous attachment.
• n. The object of inclination or liking.
• n. Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.
• n. The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.
• n. A diamond with a distinctive colour.
• n. That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
• n. (obsolete) A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad.
• n. In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies).
• adj. Decorative.
• adj. Of a superior grade.
• adj. Executed with skill.
• adj. (colloquial) Unnecessarily complicated.
• adj. (obsolete) Extravagant; above real value.
• v. (formal) To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
• v. (Britain) would like.
• v. (Britain, informal) To be sexually attracted to.
• v. (dated) To imagine, suppose.
• v. To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine.
• v. To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.

gas

• n. (uncountable, chemistry) Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained…
• n. (countable, chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
• n. (uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane)…
• n. (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
• n. (US) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.
• n. (slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
• n. (baseball) A fastball.
• v. (transitive) To kill with poisonous gas.
• v. (intransitive) To talk, chat.
• v. (intransitive) To emit gas.
• v. (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
• v. (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
• n. (uncountable, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
• n. (US) Gas pedal.
• v. (US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
• v. (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
• adj. (Ireland, colloquial) comical, zany; fun, amusing.

gasconade

• n. Boastful talk.
• adj. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to exaggeration or extravagant boasting; bombastic.
• v. (obsolete, derogatory) To talk boastfully.

gasp

• n. A short, sudden intake of breath.
• n. (Britain, slang): A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper).
• v. (intransitive) To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe laboriously or convulsively.
• v. (transitive) To speak in a breathless manner.
• v. To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.
• interj. (humorous) The sound of a gasp.

gust

• n. A strong, abrupt rush of wind.
• n. Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To blow in gusts.
• n. (archaic) The physiological faculty of taste.
• n. Relish, enjoyment, appreciation.
• n. Intellectual taste; fancy.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To taste.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To have a relish for.

hassock

• n. A dense clump of grass or vegetation; a tussock.
• n. A cushion used primarily in churches for kneeling on while praying.
• n. A thick cushion used as a seat; an ottoman or pouffe.

heave

• v. (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
• v. (transitive) To throw, cast.
• v. (intransitive) To rise and fall.
• v. (transitive) To utter with effort.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or…
• v. (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
• v. (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
• v. (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
• v. (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
• n. An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
• n. An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves,…
• n. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
• n. (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time…

huff

• n. A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
• n. An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
• n. (obsolete) A boaster; one swelled with a false sense of value or importance.
• v. To breathe heavily.
• v. To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
• v. To say in a huffy manner.
• v. (draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled…
• v. To enlarge; to swell up.
• v. To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
• v. To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke rudely; to hector; to bully.

inhalation

• n. The act of inhaling; inbreathing.
• n. The substance (medicament) which is inhaled.

inhale

• v. (intransitive) To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
• v. (transitive) To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form…
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To eat very quickly.

inspiration

• n. (physiology, uncountable) The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the…
• n. (countable) A breath, a single inhalation.
• n. A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified…
• n. The act of an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
• n. A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions…
• n. A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.

inspire

• v. (transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural…
• v. (transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what…
• v. (intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
• v. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
• v. (transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.

intoxicate

• v. To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
• adj. (obsolete) Intoxicated.
• adj. (obsolete) Overexcited, as with joy or grief.

intumesce

• v. To swell or enlarge (abnormally).
• v. To bubble up (as the result of heating).

ottoman

• n. An upholstered sofa, without arms or a back, sometimes with a compartment for storing linen, etc.
• n. A low stool or thick cushion used to rest the feet or as a seat.
• n. A fabric with a pronounced ribbed or corded effect, often made of silk or a mixture.

pad

• n. A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
• n. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
• n. A soft, or small, cushion.
• n. A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
• n. The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
• n. Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
• n. A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
• n. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
• n. A sanitary napkin.
• n. (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
• n. (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
• n. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing…
• n. A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
• n. A keypad.
• n. A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
• n. An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord".
• n. The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
• n. A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
• n. (US, slang) A bed.
• n. (colloquial) A place of residence.
• n. (Britain, slang) A prison cell.
• n. (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
• n. A mousepad.
• n. (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
• n. (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
• v. (transitive) To stuff.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
• v. (transitive) To fill or lengthen (a story, one's importance, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A toad.
• n. (Britain, dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road…
• n. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
• n. The act of highway robbery.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
• v. (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To travel on foot.
• v. (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
• v. (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To practise highway robbery.
• interj. Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
• n. The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.

pant

• n. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
• n. (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness…
• v. (transitive) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
• v. (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
• v. (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
• n. (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
• n. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.
• n. a public drinking fountain in Scotland and North-East England.

pastry

• n. A baked food group which contains items made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts,…
• n. (uncountable) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
• n. (obsolete) The place where pastry is made.

pouf

• n. (historical) A headdress for women popular in 18th century France.
• n. A high hair style for women consisting of a roll or pad of hair, worn up.
• n. (dressmaking) Part of an item of clothing consisting of gathered fabric in a bunch.
• n. A low cushioned seat with no back; a padded footstool.
• n. A short skirt gathered into a rounded puffy shape; a puffball.
• n. A ball of fabric (such as nylon monofilament netting) used for washing (as an alternative to a flannel,…
• n. (dated) A small saddle cushion worn atop the buttocks (as a fashion trend – similar to a bustle).
• n. Alternative form of puff.
• n. Alternative form of poof.
• v. (transitive) To make poufy or bouffant.
• interj. Onomatopoeia indicating a cloud of smoke or wind; caused by a deflating object, or a magical disappearance.

pouffe

• n. Alternative form of pouf.
• v. Alternative form of pouf.

powderpuff

• adj. Being or relating to a division of a traditionally male sport that is reserved for females.

praise

• n. commendation; favourable representation in words.
• n. worship.
• v. To give praise to.

puffed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of puff.
• adj. Inflated or swollen.
• adj. Consisting of a puff.
• adj. (of cereals) Expanded by the use of steam.
• adj. (informal) Synonym of puffed out (panting from exercise).

pull

• interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• n. An act of pulling (applying force).
• n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
• n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
• n. A journey made by rowing.
• n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
• n. (slang) The act of drinking.
• n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
• n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
• v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
• v. To attract or net; to pull in.
• v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
• v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
• v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• v. (intransitive) To row.
• v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
• v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
• v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
• v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
• v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

quilt

• n. A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having…
• n. A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.
• n. A quilted skirt worn by women.
• v. To construct a quilt.
• v. To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique.

recommendation

• n. An act of recommending.
• n. That which is recommended.
• n. A commendation or endorsement.

seat

• n. Something to be sat upon.
• n. A location or site.
• n. The starting point of a fire.
• n. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
• v. (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
• v. (transitive) To provide with places to sit.
• v. (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
• v. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one…
• v. (transitive) To assign the seats of.
• v. (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.
• v. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
• v. To put a seat or bottom in.

smoke

• n. (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
• n. (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
• n. (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.).
• n. (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of…
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory,…
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke…
• n. (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
• n. (military, uncountable) A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield…
• n. (baseball, slang) A fastball.
• v. (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
• v. (intransitive) To give off smoke.
• v. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
• v. (slang) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.
• v. (US, Canada, New Zealand, slang) To beat someone at something.
• v. (US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
• v. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
• v. To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
• v. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
• v. To suffer severely; to be punished.
• v. (transitive, US military slang) To punish for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
• adj. Of the colour known as smoke.
• adj. Made of or with smoke.

swash

• n. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
• n. (typography) a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
• n. A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or…
• n. (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
• n. (obsolete) A blustering noise.
• n. (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
• n. (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
• n. (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
• v. (intransitive) To swagger; to bluster and brag.
• v. (intransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
• v. (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
• adj. Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.

swell

• v. (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
• v. (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
• v. (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
• v. (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
• v. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
• v. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
• v. To protuberate; to bulge out.
• n. The act of swelling.
• n. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
• n. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
• n. (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
• n. (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
• n. (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
• n. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
• n. (informal, dated) A person who is dressed in a fancy or elegant manner.
• n. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
• adj. (Canada, US, informal, slang) Excellent.

testimonial

• n. A statement, especially one given under oath; testimony.
• n. A written recommendation of someone's worth or character.
• n. A tribute given in appreciation of someone's service etc.
• n. (soccer) A match played in tribute to a particular player (who sometimes receives a proportion of the…
• adj. Serving as testimony.

tout

• n. Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
• n. A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
• v. (transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
• v. (obsolete) To look upon or watch.
• v. (Britain, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc…
• v. (US, slang, horse-racing, transitive) To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation…
• v. (Britain, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or…
• v. (US, slang, horse-racing, intransitive) To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
• v. "tout for": to look for, try to obtain.
• n. (card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

tumefy

• v. to cause to swell.

tumesce

• v. (intransitive) To become tumescent; to expand or inflate.

uplift

• v. To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional…
• v. (aviation, travel) to be accepted for carriage on a flight.
• n. The act or result of being uplifted.
• n. (geology) A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building.
• n. (colloquial) A brassiere that raises the breasts.

vaunt

• v. (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
• v. (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
• v. (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
• n. A boast; an instance of vaunting.
• n. (obsolete) The first part.

whiff

• n. A waft; a brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air.
• n. An odour carried briefly through the air.
• n. A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially of smoke from a cigarette or pipe.
• n. (figuratively) A slight sign of something; a glimpse.
• n. (baseball) A strike (from the batter’s perspective).
• n. The megrim, a fish: Lepidorhombus boscii or Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis.
• v. (transitive) To waft.
• v. (transitive) To sniff.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To strike out.
• v. (slang) To attempt to strike and miss, especially being off-balance/vulnerable after missing.
• v. To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
• v. To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away.
• adj. (colloquial) Having a strong or unpleasant odor.