efflateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɪˈfleɪt/

動詞

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.
   • 1634, 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:

     our common spirits, efflated by every vulgar breath

関連する語

• efflation

参照

• “efflate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.