efflate

English

Etymology

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

Verb

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

  1. To fill with breath; to puff up.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for efflate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Verb

efflāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of efflō
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