aerify
Americanverb (used with object)
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to aerate.
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to make aeriform; convert into vapor.
verb
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to change or cause to change into a gas
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to mix or combine with air
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Many superintendents aerify their greens twice a year.
From Golf Digest ● May 8, 2020
Then the agronomist turned to Bob and asked, “How often to you aerify your greens?”
From Golf Digest ● May 8, 2020
Management found it difficult to shut the course down to verticut, aerify or topdress the fairways.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 1, 2020
“I aerified five of the greens 13 years ago,” Bob said through clenched teeth, “and I haven’t done any of them since.”
From Golf Digest ● May 8, 2020
Aerificā′tion, act of being aerified or changed from a solid or liquid state into air or gas: act of combining air with anything: state of being filled with air.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
It moves actively through the stagnant water in its passage to the surface, aerifying it, and at the same time doing faithfully its work as scavenger by consuming vegetable germs and putrefying matter.
From Four Months in a Sneak-Box by Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes)
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