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puffingverbpresent participle of puff to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficultyhe came running up the stairs puffing and wheezing blowing, gasping, heaving, hyperventilating, panting, wheezing choking, gagging, gulping, huffingasphyxiating, smothering, stifling, stranglingsnoring, snufflingexhaling, expiring being out of breath to praise too mucha talk show host who can be counted on to puff up the celebrities who readily consent to be interviewed adulating, belauding, blarneying, buttering up, flattering, hero-worshipping(also hero-worshiping), honeying, massaging, overpraising, soft-soaping, stroking blandishing, cajoling, coaxing, sweet-talking, wheedlingfawning, kowtowing, sucking (up to), toadyingidolizing, worshipping(also worshiping)eulogizing, extolling, lauding, praisingapplauding, commending, complimentingcongratulating, felicitatingdrooling, gushing, slavering, slobberingendearing, ingratiatingcourting, romancing, wooing bad-mouthing, belittling, decrying, depreciating, disparaging, putting down |