AERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aerate mean? 

• AERATE (verb)
  The verb AERATE has 3 senses:

1. expose to fresh air

2. aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter

3. impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen

  Familiarity information: AERATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they aerate    ... he / she / it aerates   
Past simple: aerated   
Past participle: aerated   
-ing form: aerating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expose to fresh air

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

aerate; air; air out

Context example:

aerate your old sneakers

Hypernyms (to "aerate" is one way to...):

expose (expose or make accessible to some action or influence)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

aeration (the process of exposing to air (so as to purify))

air (a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

activate; aerate

Hypernyms (to "aerate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

aerator (an apparatus for exposing something to the air (as sewage))

air (a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

aerate; oxygenate; oxygenise; oxygenize

Context example:

oxygenate blood

Hypernyms (to "aerate" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

aeration (the act of charging a liquid with a gas making it effervescent)

 Context examples 

An aerated solution or suspension.

(Foam Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

By using this approach, the composting process is accelerated by approximately two months compared to the usual method of treating sludge in aerated piles, and by one month compared to another classic method that uses concrete containers.

(Scientists validate a new technology that transforms sewage sludge into fertilizer more efficiently, University of Granada)