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inblow en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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

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inblows Number=Plur lexicographic

inblow en · VERB

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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.

Forms

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inblows Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
inblowing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
inblew Tense=Past lexicographic
inblown Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic