aerifyv.
/ˈɛːrᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈɛrəˌfaɪ/ Chiefly U.S.
transitive. To introduce air into (now esp. soil or turf); = aerate v. 2. Also occasionally intransitive.
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1826 Ann. Philos. New Ser. 12 280 In this bread, also, as in others similarly aërified, there remains always a certain trace of ammonia.
1858 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 19 82 Lungs which aërify their blood.
1871 P. M. Randall Quartz Operator's Hand-bk. (rev. ed.) 37 At the pleasure of the manager, vapors the most pestilential, and gases the most poisonous and inflammable are aerified to a degree of entire salubrity.
1917 McKean Democrat (Smethport, Pa.) 26 Apr. You need submerged plants also to aerify the water.
1949 USGA Jrnl. Aug. 31/2 If you can't rebuild the green, the least you can do is to aerify and get roots down 4 or 5 inches.
1958 J. Bush-Brown & L. Bush-Brown America's Garden Bk. (new ed.) 176/2 It is recommended that..bluegrass turf be aerified thoroughly in the spring.
1994 L. B. McCarty & M. L. Elliott in A. Leslie Handbk. Integrated Pest Managem. Turf & Ornamentals xviii. 194/1 Greens were aggressively and frequently aerified deep enough to allow better and healthier root penetration.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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