oxygenate

English

Etymology

From oxygen or French oxygéner +‎ -ate.

Verb

oxygenate (third-person singular simple present oxygenates, present participle oxygenating, simple past and past participle oxygenated)

1. (transitive) To treat or infuse with oxygen

   After we oxygenated the river, the fish returned.

2. (transitive, medicine) To give (a patient) oxygen therapy.

Derived terms

• deoxygenate
• disoxygenate
• overoxygenate
• overoxygenation
• oxygenation
• oxygenator
• preoxygenate
• reoxygenate

 

Translations

infuse with oxygen

• Bulgarian: насищам с кислород (nasištam s kislorod)
• Catalan: oxigenar (ca)
• French: oxygéner (fr)
• German: oxygenieren
• Greek: οξυγονώνω (el) (oxygonóno)
• Irish: ocsaiginigh
• Italian: ossigenare (it), ossigenarsi
• Japanese: 酸素を送り込む
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• Manx: ocsajeeneaghey
• Portuguese: oxigenar (pt)
• Spanish: oxigenar (es)
• Swedish: syresätta (sv)
• Welsh: ocsigenu, ocsigeneiddio