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oxygenate

[ok-si-juh-neyt] / ˈɒk sɪ dʒəˌneɪt /
VERB
add oxygen
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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Look at trading for a key commodity with a heinous name: RBOB, short for reformulated gasoline blendstock for oxygenate blending.

From Barron's Mar. 20, 2026

Maternal blood to oxygenate us, all of us, when we were barely the size of a gummy bear.

From Slate Sep. 7, 2024

After a particularly big bloom at McLeod Lake in 2006, Stockton installed a bubble system in the Stockton Deep Water Channel to oxygenate the water and break up the algae, the Record reported.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2024

This caused a steep reduction in the number of burrowing invertebrates, which oxygenate sediments.

From Science Daily May 8, 2024

The lungs never act rightly, never oxygenate the blood sufficiently.

From Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

Surgeons would connect the blood vessels in the umbilical cord to a system that oxygenates blood outside the body.

From Scientific American Sep. 18, 2023

Crimmins says that because Maria’s lungs were not providing enough oxygen to her and Dylan, she was placed on ECMO, a life-supporting measure that oxygenates the blood outside of the body.

From Washington Post Oct. 22, 2021

These strategies of remote control also extend to Banksy’s dealings with the news media, whose publicity oxygenates his fame and mystique, but whose enquiries can be an irritant.

From New York Times Feb. 5, 2020

But that story is only the embers of something more, which the film steadily exhales over, oxygenates and causes to flame up.

From The Guardian May 8, 2019

Nothing oxygenates the lungs like a sail, and your friends the fishermen would be delighted to have you as super-cargo.

From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley

The tribunal found Ali "failed to obtain informed consent" from Patient B through the vitamin C, oxygenated water, sodium bicarbonate and ozone therapy treatments.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

A network of elastic and actively pumping vessels carrying oxygenated blood span the surface of the brain before entering the cortex.

From Science Daily May 29, 2024

The fish that are collected are regularly transferred to a truck with an oxygenated tank and hauled to one of several locations in the delta to be released.

From Los Angeles Times May 2, 2024

In a shipworm burrow, a mussel could plug the hole with its body, creating a low-oxygen environment for its symbionts while still accessing oxygenated ocean water it needs outside the burrow.

From New York Times Feb. 6, 2024

It’s a slim chance, but the cold oxygenated water of the river might be our only chance to survive.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

In the Americas, doctors can help infected people by putting them on a life-support machine known as ECMO, for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which breathes for the patient by oxygenating the blood.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2026

These branches are ultimately responsible for oxygenating the blood in the lungs.

From Science Daily Dec. 4, 2023

The latter is battery-powered, and when turned on it creates an oxygenating spiral motion in the water in the carafe, which is said to improve its taste.

From BBC Feb. 15, 2023

It is used when a ventilator isn’t enough, pumping blood out of the body, oxygenating it, and then returning it.

From Seattle Times Jul. 18, 2022

So I walked and walked, oxygenating my lungs and mentally documenting all that was going on.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys




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