insufflates

Meaning of insufflates

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.

Information about insufflates

  • It is a verb.
  • The singular form of insufflates is: insufflate.
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Hyphenation of insufflates

in-suf-flates

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • insufflates is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

insufflates synonyms

Meaning :

snort

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