oxygenize
Americanverb (used with object)
Other Word Forms
- hyperoxygenize verb (used with object)
- oxygenizable adjective
- oxygenizer noun
- semioxygenized adjective
- unoxygenized adjective
Etymology
Origin of oxygenize
Example Sentences
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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
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
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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