aerate
- v expose to fresh air
aerate your old sneakers - v aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter
- v impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen
- This allows the vodka to aerate and, when it hits your tongue, reveal its true flavor.
- Toiling underground, the hard-working worms in one acre can eat, pulverize, fertilize, aerate and move ten tons of earth in a year's time.
- Even the course superintendent wouldn't allow them on the course unless it was to aerate the fairways with their spiked heels.