Thread: What's the best word?
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Old 24-Apr-2008, 18:06
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Default Re: What's the best word?
de-aerate = to remove air or gas from.
You will also see it unhyphenated, 'deaerate', but since it is not a word your eyes meet every day, the hyphenated form breaks up the string of 3 vowels and allows the brain to grasp it more quickly, without having to stop and de-concatenate it = break it up into 'de' and 'aerate'.
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