Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To convert (a liquid) to a fine spray; atomize.
- transitive verb To treat with a medicated spray.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reduce to a spray; atomize.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To reduce (as a liquid) to a fine spray or vapor; to atomize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To convert
liquid into a finespray ofaerosols , by using anebulizer ; toatomize - verb medicine To treat a patient with
medicine applied using a nebulizer
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Examples
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We had to nebulize our youngest when he had RSV as a tiny baby.
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Reducing resource limits in PHP can produce unspecific error messages and nebulize the origin of a problem.
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"Did she nebulize him with the teething solution?"
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: \ "FWD: Why does it always seem like the sky is falling with you?" nebulize At Brett's watching some crime show on A&E, they're basically biting off of Saw.
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