"dehydrate" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /diːhaɪdˈɹeɪt/ [UK], /diːˈhaɪdɹeɪt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-dehydrate.wav [US] Forms: dehydrates [present, singular, third-person], dehydrating [participle, present], dehydrated [participle, past], dehydrated [past]
Etymology: de- + hydrate Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|de|hydrate}} de- + hydrate Head templates: {{en-verb}} dehydrate (third-person singular simple present dehydrates, present participle dehydrating, simple past and past participle dehydrated)
  1. (transitive) To remove water from; to dry up. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Chemical processes, Water Translations (to lose or remove water): deshidratar (Catalan), dehydrovat (Czech), dehydrere (Danish), dehydrateren (Dutch), kuivata (Finnish), kuivattaa (Finnish), poistaa vesi [with-elative] (Finnish), déshydrater (French), deshidratar (Galician), dehydrieren (German), 脱水する (dassui suru) (alt: だっすいする) (Japanese), сусыздандыру (susyzdandyru) (Kazakh), jee-ushtaghey (Manx), whakamaroke (Maori), tauraki (Maori), whakatārehe (Maori), odwodnić [perfective] (Polish), odwadniać [imperfective] (Polish), desidratar (Portuguese), deshidrata (Romanian), обезво́живать (obezvóživatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), обезво́дить (obezvóditʹ) [perfective] (Russian), дегидрати́ровать (degidratírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), deshidratar (Spanish), torka ut (Swedish), ཞ་རློན་འཐེན (zha rlon 'then) (Tibetan), dadhydradu (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-dehydrate-en-verb-RVZfS5ug Disambiguation of Chemical processes: 58 42 Disambiguation of Water: 58 42 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with de- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 35 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with de-: 57 43 Disambiguation of 'to lose or remove water': 57 43
  2. (intransitive) To lose water from one's body; to become dehydrated. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-dehydrate-en-verb-dxmgA2Y9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: desiccate, exsiccate, parch

Inflected forms

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        "(transitive) To remove water from; to dry up."
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          "sense": "to lose or remove water",
          "word": "déshydrater"
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          "_dis1": "57 43",
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          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to lose or remove water",
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to lose or remove water",
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          "alt": "だっすいする",
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        "(intransitive) To lose water from one's body; to become dehydrated."
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
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      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
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      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
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      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
      "word": "deshidratar"
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      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
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      "word": "脱水する"
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      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
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      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
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      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
      "word": "deshidrata"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obezvóživatʹ",
      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "обезво́живать"
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      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
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      "word": "обезво́дить"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "degidratírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
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      "word": "дегидрати́ровать"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
      "word": "deshidratar"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
      "word": "torka ut"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "zha rlon 'then",
      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
      "word": "ཞ་རློན་འཐེན"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to lose or remove water",
      "word": "dadhydradu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dehydrate"
}

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