"dehumidify" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "de- + humid + -ify",
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      "form": "dehumidifies",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "dehumidifying",
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        "participle",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "dehumidifier"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Many air conditioners, in addition to reducing the temperature, also dehumidify the air.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 August, G. Freeman Allen, “The new diesel-electric luxury Pullman units of British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 475",
          "text": "[...] the compressor and condenser units of the refrigeration apparatus, which cools and de-humidifies the air entering the cars, are underframe-mounted, with evaporator units in the ceiling, [...].",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To reduce the moisture in a body of air; to lower the humidity."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "moisture",
          "moisture"
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          "air",
          "air"
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          "humidity",
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      ],
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        {
          "word": "humidifier"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "déshumidifier"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "deshumidificar"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "entfeuchten"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "deumidificare"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "desumidificar"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "deshumidificar"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "dehumidify"
}

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      "word": "dehumidifier"
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "de- + humid + -ify",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dehumidifies",
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        "singular",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dehumidifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "dehumidified",
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "dehumidified",
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        {
          "text": "Many air conditioners, in addition to reducing the temperature, also dehumidify the air.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 August, G. Freeman Allen, “The new diesel-electric luxury Pullman units of British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 475",
          "text": "[...] the compressor and condenser units of the refrigeration apparatus, which cools and de-humidifies the air entering the cars, are underframe-mounted, with evaporator units in the ceiling, [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reduce the moisture in a body of air; to lower the humidity."
      ],
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        [
          "moisture",
          "moisture"
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          "air",
          "air"
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        ]
      ]
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  ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "déshumidifier"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "deshumidificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "entfeuchten"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "deumidificare"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "desumidificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "deshumidificar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dehumidify"
}