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efflate

/ɪˈfleɪt/

efflate verb: to fill with breath; to puff up.

Verb

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

  1. (archaic) To fill with breath; to puff up.
    • our common spirits, efflated by every vulgar breath1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC

efflate meaning in Bengali

efflate in Bengali

নিঃশ্বাস দিয়ে পূর্ণ করা, ফুলিয়ে তোলা

Forms of efflate

third-person singular presentefflates
present participleefflating
past participleefflated
pastefflated

Origin of efflate

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

Questions about efflate

What does efflate mean?
Efflate means to fill with breath; to puff up.
What is efflate in Bengali?
Efflate in Bengali is নিঃশ্বাস দিয়ে পূর্ণ করা, ফুলিয়ে তোলা. See Efflate meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is efflate?
Efflate is a verb.
How do you pronounce efflate?
Efflate is pronounced /ɪˈfleɪt/.
What is the past tense of efflate?
The past tense of efflate is efflated.

Words near efflate in the dictionary

  1. Effingham Junction
  2. efflagitate
  3. efflagitates
  4. efflagitation
  5. efflagitations
  6. efflate
  7. efflates
  8. efflation
  9. efflations
  10. Effler
  11. Efflers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: efflate (page history and authors); efflate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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