Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To oxygenate. Also spelled oxygenise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb (Chem.) To oxidize.

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  • verb To oxidize.
  • verb To oxygenate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen
  • verb change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part; or change (an element or ion) from a lower to a higher positive valence: remove one or more electrons from (an atom, ion, or molecule)
  • verb dehydrogenate with oxygen

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Examples

  • I noiselessly fumigate one of them; I noiselessly oxygenize the other, by means of a simple Apparatus fixed outside in the corner here.

    Armadale 2003

  • It takes no great mind to know from past observation that a common cold often holds on and settles down to chronic inflammation of the lungs, and the patient dies of consumption, croup, diphtheria, tonsilitis, and as catarrhal trouble stays and begins to waste vitality by failing to oxygenize blood while in the lungs, diphtheria paves the way for the young and old to die of consumption.

    Philosophy of Osteopathy 1872

  • And, carrying the idea a little further, if, instead of an assembly or an audience, we should oxygenize towns, cities, a whole country -- what activity would be infused into the whole people!

    All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866

  • I appealed to Dr. Bates to rack his brains in the preparation of the most effective tonics, I took my food with scrupulous regularity; and in the effort to oxygenize my thin pale blood, drew long respirations of the pure summer air.

    A Day of Fate Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • I noiselessly fumigate one of them; I noiselessly oxygenize the other, by means of a simple Apparatus fixed outside in the corner here.

    Armadale Wilkie Collins 1856

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