oxygenate

English

Etymology

From oxygen or French oxygéner +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒksɪdʒəneɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: oxy‧gen‧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.

   Synonym: oxygenize (uncommon)

   After we oxygenated the river, the fish returned.

   • 2012, Teresa Hopper, Mosby's Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice‎^[1], 3rd edition, Elsevier Saunders, →ISBN, page 589:

     The function of the respiratory system is to oxygenate the blood and remove carbon dioxide.

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
• Manx: ocsajeeneaghey
• Portuguese: oxigenar (pt)
• Spanish: oxigenar (es)
• Swedish: syresätta (sv)
• Welsh: ocsigenu, ocsigeneiddio