insufflate

UK /ˈɪnsʌfleɪt/ US /ˈɪnsʌfleɪt/
verb 4

Definitions

verb

1

To breathe or blow into or on.

2

To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.

3

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

To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.

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