oxygenate
verb (used with object)
to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen.
oxygenated
Example Sentences
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"The puzzle pieces are fitting together and really underscore how life was able to diversify and live in this new, oxygenated world."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
A year after their surgery, the amount of oxygenated blood pumped by the heart had increased by:
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2024
The fish that are collected are regularly transferred to a truck with an oxygenated tank and hauled to one of several locations in the delta to be released.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
The study unveiled that Siikaneva peatland, located in southern Finland, releases highly oxygenated organic molecules at night, leading to aerosol particle formation closely resembling the pre-industrial atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024
Berkner speculates that this is what happened to the great reptiles; their size may have been all right for a richly oxygenated atmosphere, but they had the bad luck to run out of air.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
