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verb

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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.).

   Example: 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)

   Synonyms:snort

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