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OXYGENATE
Definition of OXYGENATE
verb
To treat or infuse with oxygen.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
OXYGENATE carries 4 further meanings.
transitive verb
To treat, combine, or infuse with oxygen.
To mix with oxygen; impregnate or saturate with oxygen: as, the blood is oxygenated in the lungs.
Same as oxidate.
transitive verb
To unite, or cause to combine, with oxygen; to treat with oxygen; to oxidize.
“oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide)”
Where it comes from
From oxygen or French oxygéner + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,062)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, OXYGENATE · 2 relatives in the game
OXYGENATE in a sentence
“Seth explains that the cheetah uses its tail for balance, that it has an enormous heart and lungs to oxygenate that athletic frame and that it has superb eyesight and excellent hearing.”
'Out here in the veld I understand the bewitching power of the cheetah', 2011
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OXYGENATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 83 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.
Built from these letters
OXYGENATE starts with O and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEGNOTXY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of OXYGENATE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start OXYGEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OXYGENATE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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