insufflate
verb/ˈɪnsʌfleɪt/
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.
- borrowed from īnsufflātus
Definitions
To breathe or blow into or on.
To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.
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)
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To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.
The neighborhood
- neighborautoinsufflate
- neighborautoinsufflation
- neighborinsufflation
- neighborinsufflator
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for insufflate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA