efflate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin efflatus, past participle of efflare (to blow or breathe out), from ex + flare (to blow).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

efflate (third-person singular simple present efflates, present participle efflating, simple past and past participle efflated)

  1. To fill with breath; to puff up.
    • 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, [], London: [] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
      our common spirits, efflated by every vulgar breath

References[edit]

efflate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

efflāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of efflō