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- [dee-hahy-dreyt]
- /diˈhaɪ dreɪt/
- /ˌdiː.haɪˈdreɪt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [dee-hahy-dreyt]
- /diˈhaɪ dreɪt/
Definitions of dehydrate word
- verb dehydrate When something such as food is dehydrated, all the water is removed from it, often in order to preserve it. 3
- verb dehydrate If you dehydrate or if something dehydrates you, you lose too much water from your body so that you feel weak or ill. 3
- verb dehydrate to lose or cause to lose water; make or become anhydrous 3
- verb dehydrate to lose or cause to lose hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms in the proportions in which they occur in water, as in a chemical reaction 3
- verb dehydrate to lose or deprive of water, as the body or tissues 3
- verb transitive dehydrate to remove water from (a compound, substance, body tissues, etc.); dry 3
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Origin of dehydrate
First appearance:
before 1850 One of the 32% newest English words
First recorded in 1850-55; de- + hydrate
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Parts of speech for Dehydrate
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
dehydrate popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 66% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
dehydrate usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for dehydrate
verb dehydrate
- dry — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
- drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
- sear — to burn or char the surface of: She seared the steak to seal in the juices.
- parch — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- desiccate — to remove most of the water from (a substance or material); dehydrate
Antonyms for dehydrate
verb dehydrate
- soak — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
- wet — moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands.
- moisten — Wet slightly.
- dampen — To dampen something such as someone's enthusiasm or excitement means to make it less lively or intense.
- hydrate — any of a class of compounds containing chemically combined water. In the case of some hydrates, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O, the water is loosely held and is easily lost on heating; in others, as sulfuric acid, SO 3 ⋅H 2 O, or H 2 SO 4 , it is strongly held as water of constitution.
Top questions with dehydrate
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