as in raved
to talk loudly and wildly
demanding to speak to the manager, he huffed about the rudeness of the sales assistant
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Recent Examples of huffed
Difluoroethane is a gas often used in cans of compressed air, which can be huffed to produce a high, while alprazolam is the generic form of brand-name Xanax.
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Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
Isaac Hayden huffed and puffed but received little support from Blackpool’s Karoy Anderson.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2026
On one of the machines a Cluely employee panted and huffed in the dark.
—Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
Frozen-looking surfers still in their wetsuits huffed past us from a secluded point break.
—Alice Gregory, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2025
Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
Isaac Hayden huffed and puffed but received little support from Blackpool’s Karoy Anderson.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2026
On one of the machines a Cluely employee panted and huffed in the dark.
—Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
Frozen-looking surfers still in their wetsuits huffed past us from a secluded point break.
—Alice Gregory, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for huffed
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Privately, though, McVay had raved to people about Simpson for a couple of weeks and believed the team could develop him into a legitimate starting quarterback, especially given the cushion of time the Rams still expected to get from reigning MVP and current starter Matthew Stafford.—
Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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Then, in March, while chatting with Esquire, Rocky raved over his three children, sharing tidbits about his family life.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
2 June 2026
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Trump blustered and lied and displayed himself in the worst possible light, of course, but Reza Pahlavi, the Shah’s son who lives in the United States and who many Iranians had reluctantly come to regard as a possible leader, also played his hand extremely badly.—
Daniel Drake,
The New York Review of Books,
16 May 2026
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Trump has blustered, contradicted himself publicly, ramped-up rhetorically and then backed down, mostly without receiving obvious concessions.—
Andrew Latham,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
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In Watsonville, a Pajaro Valley school board member publicly ranted against the Jewish community, and at a Berkeley Unified school board meeting, a mother reporting Jewish slurs was mocked, and subsequently her job information was posted online, the suit states.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
28 Feb. 2026
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For several minutes, Nathan ranted about the conditions in the jail.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
15 Feb. 2026
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Some neighbors fulminated against the university, arguing that the extra events would bring more noise and traffic, and that the property tax-exempt institution would not pay its fair share.—
Shun Graves,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Jan. 2026
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Predictably, Khomeini fulminated about Carter’s visit.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Huffed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/huffed. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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