φυσάω (phusaō)
phusaō
to blow
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1. transitive to puff or blow up, distend , (Aristophanes Comicus); of bag-pipers, (Aristophanes Comicus); φ. τὰς γνάθους to puff them out , (Demosthenes Orator):—;Pass. to be inflated , ἡ γαστὴρ ἐπεφύσητό μοι (Aristophanes Comicus)
2. metaphorically to puff one up, make him vain , and so to cheat , (Demosthenes Orator):—;Pass. to be puffed up , ἐπί τινι at a thing, (Xenophon Historicus)
3. to blow up, kindle a fire: but also
4. to blow out, extinguish , τὴν λαμπάδα (Aristophanes Comicus)
5. to blow out, spurt out , (Sophocles Tragicus)
6. to blow a wind-instrument, (Euripides) (ML)
2. metaphorically to puff one up, make him vain , and so to cheat , (Demosthenes Orator):—;Pass. to be puffed up , ἐπί τινι at a thing, (Xenophon Historicus)
3. to blow up, kindle a fire: but also
4. to blow out, extinguish , τὴν λαμπάδα (Aristophanes Comicus)
5. to blow out, spurt out , (Sophocles Tragicus)
6. to blow a wind-instrument, (Euripides) (ML)