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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aerate.

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Examples

  • It aerates rather quickly, but it rides the jasmine and doesn't sink completely into it.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • This improves drainage, water infiltration, and aerates subsoil layers to encourage root penetration.

    Offsetting carbon dioxide emissions through minesoil reclamation 2009

  • Then there is the Nature Mill — an automatic indoor composter that mixes, heats, and aerates food waste, turning it into rich soil.

    Bridget Moloney: Compost in the City 2009

  • The water table may drop seasonally below the rooting zone of vegetation which also aerates the surface.

    Wetland classifications 2008

  • Manx takes a klondike swig and keenly feels the effect, oh yes, as the Irish aerates a number of crucial passages in his head and chest.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • This all-in-one filter, pourer, aerator and stopper aerates a whole bottle of wine in just 30 seconds, allowing dad to fully appreciate its fine flavour.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • Manx takes a klondike swig and keenly feels the effect, oh yes, as the Irish aerates a number of crucial passages in his head and chest.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Manx takes a klondike swig and keenly feels the effect, oh yes, as the Irish aerates a number of crucial passages in his head and chest.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • These gill tissues are modified into a gill marsupium, which protects and aerates the eggs until fertilization.

    Mollusca 2007

  • He decapitates a stripper or two, assaults a bouncer, aerates a cop's throat, sets a bartender on fire, and generally wreaks havoc in a lumbering fashion that is saved only by virtue of its unintentional comedy.

    July 11th, 2005 2005

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