ozonedadj.
/ˈəʊzəʊnd/, U.S. /ˈoʊˌzoʊnd/ 1. Containing or supplied with ozone. Also colloquial (of air): fresh and invigorating (misidentified as containing ozone).
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1854 E. C. Evans tr. T. J. Pelouze & E. Frémy Gen. Notions of Chem. 28 M. Schœnbein recognised that the oxygen which disengages itself at the positive pole of a pile, of which the poles are plunged in water, is strongly ozoned.
1902 Scotsman 3 Sept. 6/8 The finely ozoned air in the Highlands has a gloriously recuperating power.
1906 M. J. Cawein Nature-notes & Impressions 175 The smell of tannin in the ozoned air Under the oaks when the woods are green.
1985 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 13 Jan. c14 There are two..water-exercise periods a day..in the hotel's Olympic sized, ozoned pool.
2. U.S. slang. [With allusion to the presence of ozone in the upper atmosphere and high adj. 19c.] Intoxicated on drugs; ‘high’. Only in predicative use. Also with out. Cf. zoned adj.
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1969 A. Ginsberg Coll. Poems (1984) 535 Man, I'm really stoned out of my skull really O-Zoned—good old LSD.
1979 H. W. Feldman et al. Angel Dust 171 I really digged that, you know, getting ozoned to the max.
1993 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 9 Sept. 1 n I was ozoned out on pain-killing medication.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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