Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove carbon dioxide or carbonic acid from.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of carbon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of carbonic acid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove
carbon dioxide from something
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove carbon dioxide from
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Examples
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The principal use of this organ seems to be to decarbonate the blood of the foetus, and to supply it with oxygen.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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