Impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen.
Aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter.
1 You can aerate his house, not only with air, but with ideas.
2 Baseball players' cleats are good for the ground; they aerate it.
3 If you aerate it, it can take so much butter.
4 Their chunkiness and stiff mechanical properties help aerate a heap.
5 The beating is important to aerate the mix.
6 Whisk together all the ingredients for the filling, taking care not to aerate the mixture too much.
7 The row of silver scrubbing towers five stories high to clean the air used to aerate the broth.
8 We actually have to aerate them to keep the aerobic bacteria alive, not the other way around. She looked pensive.
9 But it should be poured backwards and forwards from one jug to another several times, in order to aerate it.
10 One of the professional "touches" was to aerate the milk, after mixing, by pouring it from jug to jug.
11 Swish with a spoon or whisk to aerate the wort until there is a bit of a froth on the top.
12 That's because the sharp edges of the sugar crystals physically aerate the butter by cutting small air pockets in the fat.
13 A simple way of producing air pressure sufficient to aerate water is by the use of a siphon as shown in Fig.
14 Sift the flour and baking powder into a large mixing bowl, lifting the sifter high to aerate the flours much as possible.
15 You also must turn the pile periodically to aerate it, prevent it from overheating, and ensure that all the material decomposes uniformly.
16 Those are analogues from Earth: you can detect mole runs that way, and earthworms aerate the soil and make things grow better.
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