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oxygenate

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


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"It would oxygenate the market," says Stacy Mitchell is co-executive director of the US based non-profit Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which is part of the Athena coalition fighting to change the way Amazon operates.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

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

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

From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024

Can you breathe freely and easily the proper amount of air to oxygenate your blood and give you health and strength?

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by George Sumner Weaver

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

The deep respiration oxygenates the blood and gives us power to resist diseases.

From What Every Singer Should Know by Millie Ryan

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

Amniotic fluid embolism can lead to heart and lung failure, which causes several complications due to a lack of oxygenated blood, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025

The study unveiled that Siikaneva peatland, located in southern Finland, releases highly oxygenated organic molecules at night, leading to aerosol particle formation closely resembling the pre-industrial atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 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

The heart scrambling to deliver oxygenated blood, the mind scrambling to unravel the situation.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Alex took several deep breaths, hyperventilating and oxygenating his blood, knowing it would give him a few precious extra seconds.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz




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