dehydrate

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ hydrate.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /diːhaɪˈdɹeɪt/, /diːˈhaɪdɹeɪt/
(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌdihaɪˈdɹeɪt/, /diˈhaɪdɹeɪt/
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(General Australian) IPA^(key): /diːhɑɪˈdɹæɪt/, /diːˈhɑɪdɹæɪt/

Verb

dehydrate (third-person singular simple present dehydrates, present participle dehydrating, simple past and past participle dehydrated)

(transitive) To remove water from; to dry up.
dehydrate food

Running in the heat can quickly dehydrate you.

The fruit was dehydrated and packed for storage.
(intransitive) To lose water from one's body; to become dehydrated.
dehydrate rapidly

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Translations

to lose or remove water

Catalan: deshidratar (ca)
Czech: dehydrovat
Danish: dehydrere
Dutch: dehydrateren (nl)
Finnish: kuivata (fi), kuivattaa (fi), poistaa vesi (+ elative)
French: déshydrater (fr)
Galician: deshidratar (gl)
German: dehydrieren (de)
Indonesian: mendehidrasi
Italian: disidratare (it)
Japanese: 脱水する (だっすいする, dassui suru)
Kazakh: сусыздандыру (susyzdandyru)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Manx: jee-ushtaghey
Māori: whakamaroke, tauraki, whakatārehe
Marathi: निर्जल करणे (nirjal karṇe), निर्जल होणे (nirjal hoṇe)
Polish: odwodnić pf, odwadniać (pl) impf
Portuguese: desidratar (pt)
Romanian: deshidrata (ro)
Russian: обезво́живать (ru) impf (obezvóživatʹ), обезво́дить (ru) pf (obezvóditʹ), дегидрати́ровать (ru) impf or pf (degidratírovatʹ)
Spanish: deshidratar (es)
Swedish: torka ut (sv)
Tagalog: patuyuin
Tibetan: ཞ་རློན་འཐེན (zha rlon 'then)
Turkish: kurumak (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: قورومق (kurumak)
Welsh: dadhydradu