Crossword clues for aerate
aerate
- Give gas to
- Fizz up, as water
- Fill with fizz
- Use a bubbler
- Expose to fresh air
- Add gas to
- Add carbon dioxide
- Add bubbles to
- Use a SodaStream on, say
- Revitalize, as a lawn
- Put some fizz in
- Make sparkle, in a way
- Make soda water, e.g
- Give fizz to
- Fill with oxygen
- Do an earthworm's job
- Circulate air through
- Add fizz
- Whip, as cream
- What worms help do, soilwise
- Use a SodaStream, e.g
- Use a rototiller on, say
- Use a room freshener
- Treat, as the soil
- Treat with air or gas
- Treat a lawn
- Take care of the lawn, in a way
- Supply oxygen
- Suffuse with air
- Smooth, as tap-water flow
- Render fizzy
- Remove odors from, say
- Put the pop in pop
- Puncture with spikes, as soil
- Puncture with silly-looking cleats, as a lawn
- Punch holes in, perhaps
- Punch holes in, as a lawn
- Produce fizzy pop
- Poke holes in, as a lawn
- Poke holes in a lawn
- Pass bubbles through?
- Make the fishtank habitable
- Make breezy
- Infuse with gas
- Infuse with CO2
- Impart fizz to
- Give fizz
- Freshen aquarium water
- Force gas into
- Fill up with oxygen
- Expand, as cake batter
- Do maintenance on, as a putting green
- Do a worm's job
- Charge with air
- Charge liquid with gas
- Bring out a wine's aroma
- Add sparkle to?
- Add oxygen to
- Make bubbly, in a way
- Freshen, in a way
- Charge with gas
- Bubble up?
- Infuse with oxygen
- Treat with gas
- Ventilate soil
- Treat with carbon dioxide
- Put fizz in
- Blow bubbles into
- Make fizzy, in a way
- Make sparkling
- Supply with oxygen
- Fill with bubbles
- Cause to sparkle
- Poke holes in, perhaps
- Clear of stale odors, maybe
- Fill up with gas
- Clear out
- Infuse with carbon dioxide
- Fill with gas
- Put bubbles in
- Make less flat
- Provide with oxygen
- Put the fizz in fizz
- Supply oxygen to
- Ventilate a lawn
- Give soda its pop
- Oxidize
- Make effervescent
- Give oxygen to
- Pump in oxygen
- Freshen a lawn
- Supply with oxyen
- Oxygenize
- Freshen, as milk
- Pump up
- What soda-water manufacturers do
- Charge a liquid with gas
- Gas up?
- Supply oxygen through respiration
- Treat tap water
- Give oxygen to a singer that has been gripped by drugs
- Get agitated time after time in A&E
- Make bubbly that's consumed over a long time
- Charge with carbon dioxide
- Expose caterer, regularly hiding vermin
- A reprimand seeing book thrown is to be exciting
- Let in oxygen
- Put bubbles into
- Do a lawn job
- Infuse with bubbles
- Lighten up?
- Give a charge to
- Pump full of bubbles
- Add fizz to
- Fill full of bubbles
- Turn water into soda water
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aerate \A"["e]r*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. A["e]rated; p. pr. & vb. n. A["e]rating.] [Cf. F. a['e]rer. See Air, v. t.]
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To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.
His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from a["e]rated natural fountains.
--Carlyle. To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to a["e]rate soil; to a["e]rate water.
(Physiol.) To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize.
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cause a change by passing air through (of sewage)
Syn: activate
A["e]rated bread, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794, from Latin aer (genitive aeris; see air (n.1)) + verbal suffix -ate (2). Related: Aerated; aerating.
Wiktionary
vb. To supply oxygen or air.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "aerate".
My mother bought a brick cottage in Pulteney street and a Burra share with her legacy--both excellent investments--and my brother left the bank and went into the aerated water business with James Hamilton Parr.
Count Bunker, arrayed in a becoming suit of knickerbockers, and looking as fresh as if he had feasted last night on aerated water, who sat down to consume it.
But the spell breaks, the cut is plunged into the aerated stream of her Puraflo faucet, the finger wrapped in a floral blue paper towel.
The flow from tens of millions of toilets coursed through settling and aerating paddies the size of large farms.
Hackney cars, cabs, delivery waggons, mailvans, private broughams, aerated mineral water floats with rattling crates of bottles, rattled, rolled, horsedrawn, rapidly.
Assume it, and it follows that if all the blood in a man could be aerated with one breath, he might then seal up his nostrils and not fetch another for a considerable time.
These underground tillers or soil factories, as they have been called, also break up and aerate the soil.
Vickson had known that the robot doctor in the control room would do the only thing possible to save his life while under full acceleration: by-pass his heart with a mechanical heart, and put it in conjunction with a mechanical lung that frothed and aerated his blood.
So the sheriff stopped and shot twice more, aerating the dump but not the bird.
To keep the moat water from freezing, Sukie had ordered the installation of aerating pumps.
We talked about it, you let something slip, he called here, I got tired of playing the game of I-know-nothing-and-everything's cool, whatever it was, I found out, and you laid all that crapola on me about how you were only nineteen and you needed to fly, to discover yourself, that it was the first relationship you'd ever had with someone who had a steady job, an occupation, a fully-established life that needed aerating and fertilizing and watering, and you were too young to handle responsibility for someone else's love and life, and I understood all that shit, but you want to know what I thought of?
It aerates rather quickly, but it rides the jasmine and doesn't sink completely into it.
Yet the theme was good, and timely, and heartfelt, and White preserves an awareness of persons and aerates the dialectics with traits of character and colloquial asides.
Was the man who came out of the Aerated Bread Shop and jumped into the hansom three minutes ago a youngish-looking man with dark whiskers and spectacles?
I got a cup of tea at the Aerated Bread Company and came down to Purfleet by the next train.