Aerate
- v. t. To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize.
- v. t. To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.
- v. t. To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aerate soil; to aerate water.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.