insufflate

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈɪnsʌfleɪt/

Definition of insufflate

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To breathe or blow into or on.
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verb

  1. (transitive)To breathe or blow into or on.
  2. (transitive)To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.
  3. (transitive)To inhale (a powder etc.).
    “2001: Cocaine is usually taken by insufflating the white powdered cocaine sulphate into the nose, which leads to rapid absorption of the drug into the bloodstream. — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 98)”
  4. (transitive)To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.

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Etymology

First attested in 1670; borrowed from Latin īnsufflātus, perfect passive participle of īnsufflō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) from in- + sufflō (“to blow on”). Cognate with French insuffler.

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