oxygenate
Americanverb (used with object)
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oxygenates,
present (3rd person singular)
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oxygenated,
past participle, past
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oxygenating
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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antioxygenationnoun
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antioxygenatornoun
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hyperoxygenationnoun
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oxygenationnoun
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oxygenatornoun
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oxygenizernoun
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superoxygenationnoun
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hyperoxygenateverb (used with object)
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superoxygenateverb (used with object)
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antioxygenatingadjective
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nonoxygenatedadjective
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unoxygenatedadjective
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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oxygenatesimple
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oxygenatessimple
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have oxygenatedperfect
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has oxygenatedperfect
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am oxygenatingprogressive
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are oxygenatingprogressive
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is oxygenatingprogressive
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have been oxygenatingperfect progressive
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has been oxygenatingperfect progressive
Past
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oxygenatedsimple
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had oxygenatedperfect
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was oxygenatingprogressive
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were oxygenatingprogressive
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had been oxygenatingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of oxygenate
Example Sentences
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"It would oxygenate the market," says Stacy Mitchell is co-executive director of the US based non-profit Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which is part of the Athena coalition fighting to change the way Amazon operates.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
Look at trading for a key commodity with a heinous name: RBOB, short for reformulated gasoline blendstock for oxygenate blending.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Maternal blood to oxygenate us, all of us, when we were barely the size of a gummy bear.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
After a particularly big bloom at McLeod Lake in 2006, Stockton installed a bubble system in the Stockton Deep Water Channel to oxygenate the water and break up the algae, the Record reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
Lastly, and most important, is the practice of deep breathing to thoroughly oxygenate the blood.
From The Royal Road to Health by Charles Alfred Tyrrell
Surgeons would connect the blood vessels in the umbilical cord to a system that oxygenates blood outside the body.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2023
Crimmins says that because Maria’s lungs were not providing enough oxygen to her and Dylan, she was placed on ECMO, a life-supporting measure that oxygenates the blood outside of the body.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2021
These strategies of remote control also extend to Banksy’s dealings with the news media, whose publicity oxygenates his fame and mystique, but whose enquiries can be an irritant.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
But that story is only the embers of something more, which the film steadily exhales over, oxygenates and causes to flame up.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2019
Nothing oxygenates the lungs like a sail, and your friends the fishermen would be delighted to have you as super-cargo.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley
Marine productivity remained lower, the ocean became highly oxygenated, and less organic carbon was buried.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
"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
Amniotic fluid embolism can lead to heart and lung failure, which causes several complications due to a lack of oxygenated blood, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025
A year after their surgery, the amount of oxygenated blood pumped by the heart had increased by:
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2024
The heart scrambling to deliver oxygenated blood, the mind scrambling to unravel the situation.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
In the Americas, doctors can help infected people by putting them on a life-support machine known as ECMO, for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which breathes for the patient by oxygenating the blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
These branches are ultimately responsible for oxygenating the blood in the lungs.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023
The latter is battery-powered, and when turned on it creates an oxygenating spiral motion in the water in the carafe, which is said to improve its taste.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2023
In this land of plentiful, oxygenating trees, everyone is alone, and people cough into the crook of an elbow anyway.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2022
So I walked and walked, oxygenating my lungs and mentally documenting all that was going on.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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