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inblow

inblow verb: to blow into; puff up; inflate.

Verb

inblow (third-person singular simple present inblows, present participle inblowing, simple past inblew, past participle inblown)

  1. (transitive) To blow into; puff up; inflate.
  2. (transitive) To breathe into; inspire.
    • Then the spiritual and sensory faculties follow the creation of this partial spirit that is inblown by way of tawḥīd, for He says, I blew [15:29]. As for the spirit of Jesus, it is inblown through bringing together and manyness, for within him are the faculties ...1998, William C. Chittick, The self-disclosure of God
  3. (intransitive) To blow in.

Noun

inblow (plural inblows)

  1. The act or process of blowing in or into; inflation.
    • During the full gasification stage, after piercing has been effected, the enlargement of the cracks requires a progressively increasing inblow.1949, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers: Volume 109
    • Within the frame of the Pandtl model the evident formula for the principle of rate defect in a turbulent boundary layer are obtained when unregular inblow takes place as well as in tubes with exhausting and inblow.1980, O. (Otto) Neugebauer, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR., Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematics abstracts: Volume 419
  2. That which is blown in.

Forms of inblow

Verb
third-person singular presentinblows
present participleinblowing
pastinblew
past participleinblown
Noun
pluralinblows

Origin of inblow

From Middle English inblowen, from Old English inblāwan (“to inspire, breathe upon, inflate, puff up”), equivalent to in- + blow. Doublet of inflate.

Questions about inblow

What does inblow mean?
Inblow means to blow into; puff up; inflate.
What part of speech is inblow?
Inblow can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of inblow?
The past tense of inblow is inblew.

Words near inblow in the dictionary

  1. inblands
  2. inblew
  3. inblind
  4. inblinded
  5. inblinds
  6. inblow
  7. inblowing
  8. inblowings
  9. inblown
  10. inblows
  11. inboard

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