insufflate

/ˈɪnsʌfleɪt/

verb

  1. 1

    To breathe or blow into or on.

  2. 2

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

  3. 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. 4

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

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