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dehydrate

UK/diːhaɪˈdɹeɪt//ˌdihaɪˈdɹeɪt/

dehydrate verb: to remove water from; to dry up.

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.
    • dehydrate food
    • Running in the heat can quickly dehydrate you.
  2. (intransitive) To lose water from one's body; to become dehydrated.
    • dehydrate rapidly

dehydrate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu

dehydrate in Hindi

to dehydrate, parch; make burnt
भूनना bhūnnā

dehydrate in Tamil

சுண்ட வைத்தல், நீர்நீக்கல், நீரகற்றல்

dehydrate in Marathi

to lose or remove water
निर्जल करणे nirjal karṇe, निर्जल होणे nirjal hoṇe

dehydrate in Telugu

to dehydrate
నిర్జలీకరించు nirjalīkariñcu
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dehydrate in Malayalam
നിർജ്ജലീകരിക്കുക, ജലാംശം നീക്കുക, ഈ‍ർപ്പം മാറ്റുക, ജലാംശം ഇല്ലാതാക്കുക
dehydrate in Kannada
ನಿರ್ಜಲೀಕರಿಸು, ತೇವಾಂಶತೆಗೆ, ತೇವಕಳೆ, ಜಲರಹಿತವಾಗಿಸು
dehydrate in Tagalog
patuyuin
dehydrate in Indonesian
mendehidrasi

Examples of dehydrate in a sentence

  • I felt dehydrated because I didn't bring enough water on the hike.
  • A spudnut is a yeast doughnut made with wheat flour and dehydrated potatoes.
  • After removal from a worker bee they should be potashed in ten percent potassium hydroxide, washed, dehydrated, cleared, and mounted.

All 14 example sentences with dehydrate

Synonyms of dehydrate

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of dehydrate

Forms of dehydrate

third-person singular presentdehydrates
present participledehydrating
past participledehydrated
pastdehydrated

Past tense of dehydrate: dehydrated

Origin of dehydrate

From de- + hydrate.

Words formed from dehydrate

Questions about dehydrate

What does dehydrate mean?
Dehydrate means to remove water from; to dry up.
What is dehydrate in Hindi?
Dehydrate in Hindi is भूनना (bhūnnā). See Dehydrate meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is dehydrate?
Dehydrate is a verb.
How do you pronounce dehydrate?
Dehydrate is pronounced /diːhaɪˈdɹeɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of dehydrate?
The past tense of dehydrate is dehydrated.

Words near dehydrate in the dictionary

  1. dehydrases
  2. dehydratable
  3. dehydratase
  4. dehydratases
  5. dehydratation
  6. dehydrate
  7. dehydrated
  8. dehydrater
  9. dehydrates
  10. dehydrating
  11. dehydration

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dehydrate (page history and authors); भूनना (Hindi) (page history and authors); dehydrate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); నిర్జలీకరించు (Telugu) (page history and authors); dehydrate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); dehydrate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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