verb
- Expose to fresh air.
- usage: "aerate your old sneakers"
- Aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter.
- Impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen.
- usage: "oxygenate blood"
adjective
- Of a liquid. ( treated by having air passed or bubbled through it for purification)
- Supplied with carbon dioxide.
- synonyms: charged
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