aerate

Other forms of aerate

past tense

aerated·

present participle

aerating·

third person

aerates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aerate

What does aerate mean?

aerate means "expose to fresh air". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aerate?

aerate has 3 syllables: a-e-rate. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for aerate?

Close synonyms include air out, air, activate, oxygenate, oxygenize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aerate a common word?

aerate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.