insufflate
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Definition of insufflate
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (transitive)To breathe or blow into or on.
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verb
- (transitive)To breathe or blow into or on.
- (transitive)To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.
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(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)”
- (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.
Words you can make from insufflate
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7 words7-letter words
44 words- AFFINES 13 pts
- FATEFUL 13 pts
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- INSULAE 7 pts
- INULASE 7 pts
- LUNATES 7 pts
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66 words- FIEFS 11 pts
- FIFES 11 pts
- ALEFS 8 pts
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- ELFIN 8 pts
- FAILS 8 pts
- FAINT 8 pts
- FALSE 8 pts
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- FLUTE 8 pts
- FUELS 8 pts
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