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aerated

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aer·ate  (ârt)
tr.v. aer·at·ed, aer·at·ing, aer·ates
1. To supply with air or expose to the circulation of air: aerate soil.
2. To expose to oxygen, as in the oxygenation of the blood by respiration.
3. To supply or charge (liquid) with a gas, especially to charge with carbon dioxide.
aer·ation n.
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Adj.1.aerated - (of a liquid) treated by having air passed or bubbled through it for purification
treated - subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent; "the sludge of treated sewage can be used as fertilizer"; "treated timbers resist rot"; "treated fabrics resist wrinkling"
2.aerated - supplied with carbon dioxide
charged
effervescent - (of a liquid) giving off bubbles


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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.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
They went down into the basement, where there was a dark room fitted up as a restaurant, and here the students were able to get the same sort of fare as they might have at an aerated bread shop.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
I got a cup of tea at the Aerated Bread Company and came down to Purfleet by the next train.
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