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Past tense of hydrate

regular verb

The past tense of hydrate is hydrated. The past participle is also hydrated.

Forms of hydrate

Base form (V1)hydrate /haɪˈdɹeɪt/
Past tense (V2)hydrated
Past participle (V3)hydrated
Present participlehydrating
Third person singularhydrates

Hydrated in a sentence

  • We took the powdered milk and hydrated it until it was drinkable.From the entry hydrated
  • The authors have recently analyzed a PMMA lens explanted because of snowflake degeneration in the dry and hydrated states.2010, Roger F. Steinert, Cataract Surgery, →ISBN, page 525. From the entry snowflake
  • However, a hydrated hydronium ion is a stronger acid.1996, Richard I. Masel, Principles of Adsorption and Reaction on Solid Surfaces, Wiley, page 148. From the entry hydronium
  • The same steel substrate used for tinplate may instead be coated with a layer of hydrated chromium oxide and chromium metal via electrodeposition, when it is known as tinfree steel.2012, E. M. Willhoft, Aseptic Processing and Packaging of Particulate Foods, page 44. From the entry tinfree
  • The subcommittee's report to the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry shows that the action of somnos is practically identical with that of a 5 per cent elixir of hydrated chloral.1906, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 47, pages 872–875. From the entry elixir

Meaning of hydrate

  1. noun A solid compound containing or linked to water molecules.
  2. noun Water.
  3. verb To take up, consume or become linked to water.

Full definition of hydrate

Questions about the past tense of hydrate

What is the past tense of hydrate?
The past tense of hydrate is hydrated.
What is the past participle of hydrate?
The past participle of hydrate is hydrated.
Is hydrate a regular or irregular verb?
Hydrate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hydrate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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