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Aerate   Listen
verb
Aerate  v. t.  (past & past part. aerated; pres. part. aerating)  
1.
To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. "His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aerated natural fountains."
2.
To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aerate soil; to aerate water.
3.
(Physiol.) To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize.
4.
Cause a change by passing air through (of sewage)
Synonyms: activate
Aerated bread, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.






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"Aerate" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Beverages: Drink, if possible, pure spring water. If this cannot be obtained, sterilize the water, or distil and aerate it; it must be pure and soft. Better still: drink toast- or rice-water; kefyr, four days old; koumiss; lactic-acid water; zoolak; egg lemonade; sterilized milk with one third lime-water; whortleberry wine; ...
— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison



Words linked to "Aerate" :   process, oxygenise, oxygenate, modify, aeration, activate, oxygenize, de-aerate, aerator, alter, expose, air out, treat, air



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