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Aerate   Listen
verb
Aerate  v. t.  (past & past part. aerated; pres. part. aerating)  
1.
To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. "His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aerated natural fountains."
2.
To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aerate soil; to aerate water.
3.
(Physiol.) To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize.
4.
Cause a change by passing air through (of sewage)
Synonyms: activate
Aerated bread, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.





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"Aerate" Quotes from Famous Books



... unquestionably did, such thoughts of her had been implanted in him, and lay in him. Stifled as they were, they lay in him like seeds too deep for germination, which accident might some day bring near the surface and aerate ...
— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy


Words linked to "Aerate" :   activate, process, alter, aerator, change, de-aerate, expose


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