aerated
adj1
Supplied or infused with air or oxygen.
- 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:
3 more examples
- I do not see why players get so aerated over this: do they really want to win at this game unfairly?2007 January 15, David Stevenson, “Re: logical alternative?”, in rec.games.bridge (Usenet), retrieved 19 Oct 2015:
- I was risk averse at the best of times and due to Malcolm's infamous temper – and we are talking about the man who got so aerated over some missing sales figures that he actually passed out – I had taken it as my mission at work to eliminate risk completely.2011, Allie Spencer, Summer Loving, page 9:
- Stupid thing for me to get so aerated about.2015, Marguerite Kaye, The Soldier's Dark Secret, page 48:
- Derived terms
- aerated bread, hyperaerated, nonaerated, unaerated