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dewater

dewater verb: to remove water from.

Verb

dewater (third-person singular simple present dewaters, present participle dewatering, simple past and past participle dewatered)

  1. To remove water from.
    • In the 20ᵗʰ century, when the mechanical separation of impurities based upon specific gravity separations and the removal of fine coal particles which are difficult to handle and dewater became the technology of choice, the bituminous coal mining industry produced vast quantities of both gob and...2004, David A. Tillman, N. S. Harding, chapter 3, in Fuels of opportunity: characteristics and uses in combustion systems, →ISBN, page 89
    • The starting feedstock (i.e., pineapple peel) for producing biochar and activated carbon was collected from a local market (Chienchen district, Kaohsiung, Taiwan). It was first dewatered in the sun and further dried in the air-circulating oven at 105 °C.2023 December 6, Chi-Hung Tsai, Wen-Tien Tsai, Li-An Kuo, “Effect of Post-Washing on Textural Characteristics of Carbon Materials Derived from Pineapple Peel Biomass”, in Andrei Victor Sandu, editor...
    Synonyms:
    unwater § Synonyms

Synonyms of dewater

Forms of dewater

third-person singular presentdewaters
present participledewatering
past participledewatered
pastdewatered

Origin of dewater

From de- + water.

Words formed from dewater

Questions about dewater

What does dewater mean?
Dewater means to remove water from.
What part of speech is dewater?
Dewater is a verb.
What is the past tense of dewater?
The past tense of dewater is dewatered.

Words near dewater in the dictionary

  1. dewarra
  2. dewars
  3. Dewas
  4. dewata
  5. dewatas
  6. dewater
  7. dewaterabilities
  8. dewaterability
  9. dewaterable
  10. dewatered
  11. dewaterer

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