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fluoridated

fluoridated is the simple past and past participle of fluoridate.

Meaning of fluoridate

Verb

fluoridate (third-person singular simple present fluoridates, present participle fluoridating, simple past and past participle fluoridated)

  1. (transitive) To add fluoride to something, especially to drinking water in order to reduce tooth decay.
    • Out of the 484 Utah water systems that reported data in 2024, only 66 fluoridated their water, an Associated Press analysis showed. The largest was the state’s biggest city, Salt Lake City.2025 March 28, “Utah becomes the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water”, in CNN, sourced from Associated Press
    Synonyms:
    fluoridize

Adjective

fluoridated (not comparable)

  1. Treated with fluoride.
    • Utah in 2022 ranked 44th in the nation for the percentage of residents that receive fluoridated water, according to the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.2025 March 28, “Utah becomes the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water”, in CNN, sourced from Associated Press
    Synonyms:
    fluoridized

Synonyms of fluoridated

Questions about fluoridated

What does fluoridated mean?
Fluoridated means treated with fluoride.
What is fluoridated the simple past and past participle of?
Fluoridated is the simple past and past participle of fluoridate.
What part of speech is fluoridated?
Fluoridated is an adjective.

Words near fluoridated in the dictionary

  1. fluorian
  2. fluoric
  3. fluoric acid
  4. fluorid
  5. fluoridate
  6. fluoridated
  7. fluoridates
  8. fluoridating
  9. fluoridation
  10. fluoridationist
  11. fluoridationists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fluoridated (page history and authors); fluoridate (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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