Definitions for aerates

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aerates aer·ate

Spelling: [air-eyt, ey-uh-reyt]

IPA: /ˈɛər eɪt, ˈeɪ əˌreɪt/

Aerates is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in aerates (aaeerst).

Definitions for aerates

verb (used with object)

1. to expose to the action or effect of air or to cause air to circulate through:
2. to change or treat with air or a gas, especially with carbon dioxide.
3. Physiology. to expose (a medium or tissue) to air as in the oxygenation of the blood in respiration.

Origin of aerates

1785-95; Latin āer- aer- + -ate¹

Examples for aerates

Another method where fresh water is not available, as on a long drive, is to aerate it by pouring from one pail to another.

During life they are filled with air, and they serve to aerate the blood circulating in the interior of the appendage.

They only absorb air to supply the tracheæ, which aerate the blood only within the general cavity of the body.

One of the professional "touches" was to aerate the milk, after mixing, by pouring it from jug to jug.

He smiled, and I went forward to where Mr Preddle was making himself very hot by using the bellows to aerate the water.

The object of this arrangement is to break up and aerate the stored grain.

They hung out their washings where machine-gun bullets could aerate them.

For 45 minutes, I get to aerate my brain, turn the world upside down, revel in music, poetry, humor.

You can aerate his house, not only with air, but with ideas.

Shake well after the final sterilisation, to aerate the medium.