Definition of "oxygenize" []

• To oxidize. (verb)
• To oxygenate. (verb)

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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."
• "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 consumption, croup, diphtheria, tonsilitis, and as catarrhal trouble stays and begins to waste vitality by failing to oxygenize blood while in the lungs, diphtheria paves the way for the young and old to die of consumption."
• "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 into the whole people!"