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rehydrate

rehydrate verb: to resupply with water that has been removed or lost; to moisten something that has dried.

Verb

rehydrate (third-person singular simple present rehydrates, present participle rehydrating, simple past and past participle rehydrated)

  1. To resupply with water that has been removed or lost; to moisten something that has dried.
    • For two weeks, the subject had to be manually rehydrated due to the constant crying.2009 November 23, “Gateway of the Mind”, in Creepypasta, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2009
    Synonyms:
    proof, bloom

Synonyms of rehydrate

Forms of rehydrate

third-person singular presentrehydrates
present participlerehydrating
past participlerehydrated
pastrehydrated

Past tense of rehydrate: rehydrated

Origin of rehydrate

From re- + hydrate.

Words formed from rehydrate

Questions about rehydrate

What does rehydrate mean?
Rehydrate means to resupply with water that has been removed or lost; to moisten something that has dried.
What part of speech is rehydrate?
Rehydrate is a verb.
What is the past tense of rehydrate?
The past tense of rehydrate is rehydrated.

Words near rehydrate in the dictionary

  1. rehybridized
  2. rehybridizes
  3. rehybridizing
  4. rehydratable
  5. rehydratation
  6. rehydrate
  7. rehydrated
  8. rehydrates
  9. rehydrating
  10. rehydration
  11. rehydrations

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