oxygenate
verb (used with object)
to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen.
oxygenates
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present tense formof oxygenate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
