aerate

[ UK /e‍əɹˈe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen
    oxygenate blood
  2. aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter
  3. expose to fresh air
    aerate your old sneakers

How To Use aerate In A Sentence

  • This is then stacked into windrows or movable racks under a roofed area, and the piles are periodically aerated.
  • In future it will be necessary to pump this effluent, to aerate it and de-water surplus sludge from the treatment process.
  • The highly concentrated cosmetic wastewater can be treated by anaerobic - contacting oxidation - ozone - biological aerated filter ( BAF ).
  • Indeed, the evaluation site's old wastewater lagoon was converted into clean, aerated water.
  • Aerated solution of alcali should be taken internally, and balsam of copaiva, three or four times a day. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • Consequently, during the summer growing season the active layer of the soil horizon will normally be aerated.
  • The paper surveys the aeration density of aerated channelcondition of different slope, water depth, flow velocity.
  • This is useful to control weeds and aerate the soil, which helps deter seedling diseases.
  • Primarily an insectivore, the desman's diet consists of aquatic insects and their larvae, along with snails and small, slow-moving fish, which are attracted to its trenches by the musk smell and aerated water it leaves in its wake.
  • He was so aerated that he completely forgot that he had planned today to go home the long and safe way by Station Road. THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
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