† sufflatev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To blow up, inflate; also figurative.
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1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale v. 110 As sensual vsurpers them sufflate.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Sufflated, blowne up.
a1708 T. Ward England's Reformation (1710) iii. 24 An inflam'd-zeal~burning Mind Sufflated by the Holy-Wind.
1777 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 21 Feb. (1778) The same cow again sufflated by cabbages.
1791 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (1796) II. 299 They eat it [sc. charlock] so voraciously, that one or two of them [sc. cattle] were repeatedly blown, or sufflated, by it.
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