Usually means: Blow air or powder into.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word insufflate:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. insufflate: Merriam-Webster
  2. insufflate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. insufflate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. insufflate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. insufflate: Vocabulary.com
  6. insufflate: Wordnik
  7. insufflate: Wiktionary
  8. insufflate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. insufflate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Insufflate, insufflate: Dictionary.com
  11. insufflate: Rhymezone
  12. insufflate: FreeDictionary.org
  13. insufflate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. insufflate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. insufflate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. insufflate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. insufflate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insufflate: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insufflate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See insufflation as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (insufflate)

verb:  (transitive) To breathe or blow into or on.
verb:  (transitive, medicine) To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.
verb:  (transitive, medicine) To inhale (a powder etc.).
verb:  (transitive, ecclesiastical) To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.

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