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salinate

salinate verb: to add salt to.

Verb

salinate (third-person singular simple present salinates, present participle salinating, simple past and past participle salinated)

  1. To add salt to.
    • The chemist salinated her solution.

Forms of salinate

third-person singular presentsalinates
present participlesalinating
past participlesalinated
pastsalinated

Origin of salinate

From saline + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Words formed from salinate

Questions about salinate

What does salinate mean?
Salinate means to add salt to.
What part of speech is salinate?
Salinate is a verb.
What is the past tense of salinate?
The past tense of salinate is salinated.

Words near salinate in the dictionary

  1. Salinar
  2. salinas
  3. Salinas Valley
  4. Salinases
  5. Salinastroika
  6. salinate
  7. salinated
  8. salinates
  9. salinating
  10. salination
  11. salinations

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