reˈoxygenate, v.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To oxygenate afresh. Hence reˌoxygeˈnation.
| 1855 Kingsley Glaucus 140 Its remaining fresh argued that the coralline had reoxygenated it from time to time. 1884 Public Opinion 5 Sept. 306/1 An apparatus for re⁓oxygenating air that has already been breathed. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. ix. 593 The full reoxygenation of a very deep lake..presents real difficulties. |
So reoxygenize v. (Ogilvie 1882).