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dehydrater

dehydrater is the alternative form of dehydrator.

Meaning of dehydrator

Noun

dehydrator (plural dehydrators)

  1. A drying agent.
  2. A device that removes water from a material.
    • In the days following the lunch, Ms. Patterson discarded a dehydrator that she’d used to dry mushrooms, then lied to the police about having done so, according to testimony at trial.2025 July 7, Victoria Kim, Livia Albeck-Ripka, “Erin Patterson Is Found Guilty of Murder in Australia Mushroom Poisoning Case”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2025

Forms of dehydrater

pluraldehydraters

Origin of dehydrater

From dehydrate + -er.

Questions about dehydrater

What is dehydrater the alternative form of?
Dehydrater is the alternative form of dehydrator.

Words near dehydrater in the dictionary

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

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