Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove dissolved oxygen from (a liquid, such as water).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of oxygen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Chem.), obsolete To deoxidize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, physiology To remove dissolved
oxygen from something, such as water orblood .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove oxygen from (water)
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Examples
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Their crowded fish camps--doused in antibiotics--deoxygenate the water, spread disease, inadvertently kill newborn wild salmon heading out to sea.
Maria Rodale: Eat Trash, Save the Planet Maria Rodale 2011
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If you begin with His love, you deoxygenate the very affection you proclaim.
The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910
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Their crowded fish camps--doused in antibiotics--deoxygenate the water, spread disease, inadvertently kill newborn wild salmon heading out to sea.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Maria Rodale 2011
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Yes, for though we cannot deoxygenate this acid, yet we may add oxygen to it.
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In chemical operations, carbon is particularly useful, from its very great attraction for oxygen, as it will absorb this substance from many oxygenated or burnt bodies, and thus deoxygenate, or _unburn_ them, and restore them to their original combustible state.
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Many suburban lakes are designed as stormwater treatment basins, but high nutrient levels can cause algae blooms that deoxygenate the water and kill fish.
unknown title 2009
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