insufflate

1. 1.

   breathe or blow onto as a ritual or sacramental act, especially so as to symbolize the action of the Holy Spirit

   Broaderadminister
2. 2.

   treat by blowing a powder or vapor into a bodily cavity

   Broadertreat
3. 3.

   blow or breathe hard on or into

   Broaderblow

Other forms of insufflate

past tense

insufflated·

present participle

insufflating·

third person

insufflates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about insufflate

What does insufflate mean?

insufflate means "breathe or blow onto as a ritual or sacramental act, especially so as to symbolize the action of the Holy Spirit". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in insufflate?

insufflate has 3 syllables: in-suf-flate. The stress falls on "in".

Is insufflate a common word?

insufflate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.