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v. - Impregnate, combine, or supply with a certain gas; Change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part.

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  • I noiselessly fumigate one of them; I noiselessly oxygenize the other, by means of a simple Apparatus fixed outside in the corner here.
  • And, carrying the idea a little further, if, instead of an assembly or an audience, we should oxygenize towns, cities, a whole country -- what activity would be infused...
  • I appealed to Dr. Bates to rack his brains in the preparation of the most effective tonics, I took my food with scrupulous regularity; and in the effort to oxygenize my...
  • It takes no great mind to know from past observation that a common cold often holds on and settles down to chronic inflammation of the lungs, and the patient dies of...
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