Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To blow or breathe into or on.
- transitive verb To treat medically by blowing a powder, gas, or vapor into a bodily cavity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To blow into; specifically, in medicine, to treat by insufflation. See
insufflation , 3. - Eccles., to breathe upon, especially upon catechumens or the water of baptism. See
insufflation , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective To blow upon; to breath upon or into; to use insufflation upon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To breathe or blow into or on.
- verb transitive, medicine To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.
- verb transitive, medicine To inhale (a powder etc.).
- verb transitive, ecclesiastical To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb breathe or blow onto as a ritual or sacramental act, especially so as to symbolize the action of the Holy Spirit
- verb treat by blowing a powder or vapor into a bodily cavity
- verb blow or breathe hard on or into
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin īnsufflāre, īnsufflāt- : in-, into; see in– + sufflāre, to inflate; see soufflé.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From the past participle stem of Latin insufflare, from in- + sufflare ("blow on").
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Examples
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I add i have to thank and let cheerful i am off the recreational (and i am) but i dramatically want to insufflate current this.
Wii-volution 2009
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While the possibility does exist for Overdosing when grinding the pills up to either insufflate the powder, to parachute the powder, or to simply chew the pill and swallow it (any method of breaking the pill eliminates the time-release function, and releases all of the Oxycodone all at once, providing the user with an incredible, speedy, and euphoric rush.)
totse.com 2008
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