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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To treat, combine, or infuse with oxygen.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To mix with oxygen; impregnate or saturate with oxygen: as, the blood is oxygenated in the lungs.
  • Same as oxidate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb (Chem.) To unite, or cause to combine, with oxygen; to treat with oxygen; to oxidize.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To treat or infuse with oxygen

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen

Etymologies

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oxygen +‎ -ate

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