hydrate
UK/haɪˈdɹeɪt/
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Australia/hɑeˈdɹæɪt/
hydrate noun: a solid compound containing or linked to water molecules.
Noun
hydrate (plural hydrates)
Verb
hydrate (third-person singular simple present hydrates, present participle hydrating, simple past and past participle hydrated)
hydrate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Arabic
hydrate in Hindi
- solid compound containing or linked to water molecules
- जलीय jalīya
hydrate in Tamil
- நீரேறி, நீர்த்த, ஐதரேற்று, நீர்சேர்த்தல்
hydrate in Bengali
- পানি
hydrate in Arabic
- solid compound containing or linked to water molecules
- هَايْدْرَات haydrāt
More languagesFewer languages
- hydrate in Indonesian
- hidrat
- hydrate in Persian
- هیدرات
- hydrate in Thai
- ไฮเดรต haidret
- hydrate in Vietnamese
- hydrat
Examples of hydrate in a sentence
- We took the powdered milk and hydrated it until it was drinkable.
- These best-selling under-eye patches are the perfect stocking stuffer—they're designed to soothe, de-puff, and hydrate your skin.
- Animals were sacrificed on day 21 under deep anesthetisation with chloral hydrate.
Synonyms of hydrate
Forms of hydrate
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hydrates |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | hydrates |
| present participle | hydrating |
| past participle | hydrated |
| past | hydrated |
Origin of hydrate
From French hydrate, from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + -ate.
Words formed from hydrate
- carbohydrate
- chloralhydrate
- chloral hydrate
- chlorohydrate
- cryohydrate
- decahydrate
- dihydrate
- docosahydrate
- dodecahydrate
- duodecahydrate
- ethyl hydrate
- gas hydrate
- hemihydrate
- heptahydrate
- hexadecahydrate
- hexahydrate
- hydratable
- hydratase
- hydrator
- hyperhydrate
- methane hydrate
- methyl hydrate
- monohydrate
- nonahydrate
- octadecahydrate
- octahydrate
- overhydrate
- oxyhydrate
- pentadecahydrate
- pentahydrate
- perhydrate
- prehydrate
- quadrihydrate
- semihydrate
- sesquihydrate
- tetracosahydrate
- tetrahydrate
- tricosahydrate
- tridecahydrate
- trihydrate
- undecahydrate
- underhydrate
- dehydrate
- hydrate or diedrate
- hydration
- rehydrate
Questions about hydrate
- What does hydrate mean?
- Hydrate means a solid compound containing or linked to water molecules.
- What is hydrate in Hindi?
- Hydrate in Hindi is जलीय (jalīya). See Hydrate meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is hydrate?
- Hydrate can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce hydrate?
- Hydrate is pronounced /haɪˈdɹeɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of hydrate?
- The plural of hydrate is hydrates.
Words near hydrate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hydrate (page history and authors); hydrate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hydrate (Bengali 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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