oxygenize
Americanverb (used with object)
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I noiselessly fumigate one of them; I noiselessly oxygenize the other, by means of a simple Apparatus fixed outside in the corner here.
From Armadale by Wilkie Collins
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!
From All Around the Moon by Edward Roth
An animalcule tank will succeed best when it contains two or three kinds of growing plants, which oxygenize the air, and a moderate variety of decomposing organisms will supply food without making the water offensive.
From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Henry J. Slack
Their blood, liters of it, was being drained from their bodies, oxygenized in an external pump and then reintroduced.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2017
Thus, the most inflammable gas or liquid will not burn or explode unless oxygenized.
From Practical Mechanics for Boys by James Slough Zerbe
Oxygen, recognized by its power of igniting a glowing splinter, results from the decomposition of oxides of the noble metals, peroxides, chlorates, nitrates and other highly oxygenized salts.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
The poor diseased lungs craved the elixir of pure air; panted for the invigoration of breezes freshly oxygenized by field and forest, and labored exhaustedly in the languid devitalized breath of a city.
From Princess by M. G. (Mary Greenway) McClelland
Berthollet, regarding it as being a compound of hydrochloric acid and oxygen, termed it oxygenized muriatic acid.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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