puffy
adjective
puffiness
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a word derived from
puffy.
Example Sentences
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While caffeine eye cream can help reduce puffiness, Tina says it's more important to focus on the cause.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
This extreme puffiness helps resolve a long-standing question in planet formation.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2026
The upper tends to address hooding and volume loss of the eyelid, while the lower focuses on puffiness and dark circles or hollowing under the eye, says Dr. Flora Levin, a Connecticut-based oculoplastic surgeon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
Cold compresses may help relieve occasional under-eye puffiness, says Hadley King, a New York City-based dermatologist and Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, by shrinking blood vessels in the affected area.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 21, 2024
It grew swollen and puffy and she punched it hard in the middle, oofing the air out of the puffiness and the knot out of herself.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
