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oxygenize

American  
[ok-si-juh-nahyz] / ˈɒk sɪ dʒəˌnaɪz /
especially British, oxygenise

verb (used with object)

oxygenized, oxygenizing
  1. oxygenate.


Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of oxygenize

First recorded in 1795–1805; oxygen + -ize

Example Sentences

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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

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.

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