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aerated

aerated is the simple past and past participle of aerate.

Adjective

aerated (comparative more aerated, superlative most aerated)

  1. Supplied or infused with air or oxygen.
  2. (UK, informal) Annoyed or agitated.
    • Linda Meeks put her head round the door. ‘I heard you shouting, Carly. You all right?’ ‘Of course I’m all right. I just got a bit aerated.’1999, Ruth Rendell, Harm done, Hutchinson, page 342
    • BTW why are you so aerated about it? Is there never a space for your second car?2006 March 13, R. Mark Clayton, “Re: Bad neighbours!”, in alt.uk.law (Usenet), retrieved 19 Oct 2015

Meaning of aerate

Verb

aerate (third-person singular simple present aerates, present participle aerating, simple past and past participle aerated)

  1. (transitive) To supply with oxygen or air.
    • Blood is aerated in the lungs.
  2. (ambitransitive) To bubble or sparge with a gas, especially oxygen or air.
    • Carbon dioxide aerated the drink and made it fizzy.
  3. (transitive) To incorporate a gas, especially oxygen or air, into a solid or semisolid material.
    • The mousse was aerated by beating rapidly.

Synonyms of aerated

Forms of aerated

Verb
alternative formaeriated
alternative formairyated
Adjective
comparativemore aerated
superlativemost aerated

Words formed from aerated

Phrases with aerated

Questions about aerated

What does aerated mean?
Aerated means supplied or infused with air or oxygen.
What is aerated the simple past and past participle of?
Aerated is the simple past and past participle of aerate.
What part of speech is aerated?
Aerated is an adjective.

Words near aerated in the dictionary

  1. aerarians
  2. aerarium
  3. aeras
  4. aeratable
  5. aerate
  6. aerated
  7. aerated bread
  8. aerated breads
  9. aerates
  10. aerating
  11. aeration

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aerated (page history and authors); aerate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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