oxygenize

especially British, ox·y·gen·ise

[ok-si-juh-nahyz]

verb (used with object)

oxygenized, oxygenizing 

1. oxygenate.

Other Word Forms

• oxygenizable adjective
• oxygenizer noun
• hyperoxygenize verb (used with object)
• semioxygenized adjective
• unoxygenized adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of oxygenize¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; oxygen + -ize

Example Sentences

Their blood, liters of it, was being drained from their bodies, oxygenized in an external pump and then reintroduced.

From New York Times

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 Project Gutenberg

Surely David could have sufficiently oxygenized the agent’s thin blood with the story told by the hapless Gwendoline that the man should hie with him to Rigsworth and there be confronted with the veritable Strauss.

From Project Gutenberg

Berthollet, regarding it as being a compound of hydrochloric acid and oxygen, termed it oxygenized muriatic acid.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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Related Words

• aerate