huff
/hʌf/ verb C2- To breathe heavily. · The run left him huffing and puffing.
- To say in a huffy manner.
- To enlarge; to swell up. · Bread huffs.
- To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
- To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
- To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
- To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
He/she/it huffs · Past huffed · Past participle huffed · -ing form huffing
Verb forms
- Base form
- huff
- He/she/it
- huffs
- Past
- huffed
- Past participle
- huffed
- -ing form
- huffing
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