exsufflatev.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
transitive. To blow out, blow away, also spec.: see exsufflation n. 2.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > set (air) in motion [verb (transitive)] > blow out, away, or apart
overblowa1387
ventilatea1440
blast1548
difflate1590
exsufflate1666
whuffle1906
1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus iv. 44 Volatil salts..being exufflated to the heart produce syncopees.
1884 E. B. Tylor in Science IV. 547 The exorcising such a demon is practised by white men as a religious rite, even including the act of exsufflating it, or blowing it away.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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v.1666- burn one's ships
- burn oneself out
- burn out
- burn out of house and home
- burn out, forth
- burn rate
- burn rubber
- burn seasonable weather
- burn the candle at both ends
- burn the earth or wind
- burn the ground bare
- burn the ken
- burn the midnight oil
- burn the mill
- burn the planks
- burn the rump
- burn the thames
- burn the water
- burn to
- burn to death
- burn to powder
- burn to the ground
- burn to, into ashes
- burn to, into formerly also in ashes
- burn together