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dehydration

/diːhaɪˈdɹeɪʃən/US/dihaɪˈdɹeɪʃən/

dehydration noun: the act or process of removing water from something.

Noun

dehydration (countable and uncountable, plural dehydrations)

  1. The act or process of removing water from something.
    Synonyms:
    drying, desiccation
  2. The condition in which water in the body drops below normal levels, usually caused by illness, sweating or by not drinking enough.

dehydration meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

dehydration in Hindi

निर्जलीकरण, डिहाइड्रेशन, डीहाइड्रेशन

dehydration in Tamil

உலர்தல், உலர்த்துதல், நீரற்ற நிலை, நீரகற்றம், திசுக்களில் நீர்ச்சத்துக் குறைவு, நீர் நீக்கம்

dehydration in Marathi

निर्जलीकरण, डिहायड्रेशन

dehydration in Urdu

ڈی ہائیڈریشن
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dehydration in Bengali
ডিহাইড্রেশন, নির্জলীকরণ
dehydration in Telugu
నిర్జలీకరణము nirjalīkaraṇamu
dehydration in Malayalam
നിർജ്ജലീകരണം, നിർജലീകരണം
dehydration in Kannada
ನಿರ್ಜಲೀಕರಣ
dehydration in Punjabi
ਡੀਹਾਈਡ੍ਰੇਸ਼ਨ, ਡੀਹਾਈਡਰੇਸ਼ਨ
dehydration in Gujarati
નિર્જલીકરણ, ડિહાઇડ્રેશન, ડિહાઈડ્રેશન
dehydration in Odia
ଡିହାଇଡ୍ରେସନ, ଡିହାଇଡ୍ରେସନ୍, ନିର୍ଜଲୀକରଣ
dehydration in Nepali
डिहाइड्रेसन, निर्जलीकरण, डिहाइड्रेशन
dehydration in Tagalog
pagpapatuyo, katutuyutan
dehydration in Arabic
جَفاف jafāf, تَجْفاف tajfāf
dehydration in Malay
dehidrasi
dehydration in Indonesian
dehidrasi

Examples of dehydration in a sentence

  • The waterless desert can kill in many ways but dehydration is often fastest.
  • The defenders crumpled owing to exhaustion and dehydration.
  • Frequently, poikilohydry is coupled with the capacity to tolerate dehydration or low water content of cell tissue and to recover from it without physiological damage.

All 13 example sentences with dehydration

Synonyms of dehydration

Forms of dehydration

pluraldehydrations

Origin of dehydration

From de- + hydration.

Words formed from dehydration

Phrases with dehydration

Words that rhyme with dehydration

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Questions about dehydration

What does dehydration mean?
Dehydration means the act or process of removing water from something.
What is dehydration in Hindi?
Dehydration in Hindi is निर्जलीकरण, डिहाइड्रेशन, डीहाइड्रेशन. See Dehydration meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is dehydration?
Dehydration is a noun.
How do you pronounce dehydration?
Dehydration is pronounced /diːhaɪˈdɹeɪʃən/ (UK).
What is the plural of dehydration?
The plural of dehydration is dehydrations.

Words near dehydration in the dictionary

  1. dehydrate
  2. dehydrated
  3. dehydrater
  4. dehydrates
  5. dehydrating
  6. dehydration
  7. dehydration reaction
  8. dehydration reactions
  9. dehydration synthesis
  10. dehydrations
  11. dehydrative

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dehydration (page history and authors); dehydration (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dehydration (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dehydration (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dehydration (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dehydration (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dehydration (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dehydration (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dehydration (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dehydration (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dehydration (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dehydration (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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