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 Collins, Wilkie
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 Slack, Henry J.
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 Roth, Edward
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
The first cause of mental disease and suffering, is not unfrequently found in the want of a proper supply of duly oxygenized blood.
From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther
Jake Ruggles leant over the goldsmith’s bench, put the end of his blow-pipe into the gas-flame, and impinged a little oxygenized jet upon the silver buckle he was soldering.
From The Tale of Timber Town by Grace, Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus)
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 McClelland, M. G. (Mary Greenway)
His highly oxygenized blood gushed through his arteries in a veritable stream of life.
From Bloom of Cactus by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)
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