dehydration

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ hydration.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːhaɪˈdɹeɪʃən/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /dihaɪˈdɹeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

dehydration (countable and uncountable, plural dehydrations)

1. The act or process of removing water from something.

   Synonyms: drying, desiccation

2. The condition in which water in the body drops below normal levels, usually caused by illness, sweating or by not drinking enough.

Synonyms

• hypohydration

Derived terms

• chronic cellular dehydration
• cryodehydration
• cyclodehydration
• dehydration reaction
• redehydration

 

Translations

act or process of freeing from water

• Catalan: deshidratació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 脫水／脱水 (zh) (tuōshuǐ)

• Czech: dehydratace f
• Dutch: uitdroging (nl) f
• Esperanto: dehidratiĝo
• Finnish: kuivuminen (fi)
• French: déshydratation (fr) f
• Galician: deshidratación (gl) f
• German: Austrocknung (de) f, Entwässerung (de) f, Dehydration (de) f
• Greek: αφυδάτωση (el) f (afydátosi)
• Indonesian: dehidrasi (id)
• Irish: díhiodráitiú m
• Italian: disidratazione (it)
• Japanese: 脱水 (ja) (だっすい, dassui)
• Kazakh: сусыздандыру (susyzdandyru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 탈수 (ko) (talsu)
• Malay: dehidrasi
• Manx: jee-ushtaghey m
• Maori: whakamaroketanga
• Polish: odwodnienie n
• Portuguese: desidratação (pt) f
• Romanian: deshidratare (ro)
• Russian: обезво́живание (ru) n (obezvóživanije), дегидрата́ция (ru) f (dɛgidratácija)
• Spanish: deshidratación (es) f
• Swedish: uttorkning (sv) c, dehydrering c
• Tagalog: hitubig
• Telugu: నిర్జలీకరణము (te) (nirjalīkaraṇamu)
• Ukrainian: знево́днення n (znevódnennja)
• Welsh: dysychiad m

condition in which water in the body drops below normal levels

• Arabic: جَفاف m (jafāf), تَجْفاف m (tajfāf)
• Dutch: uitdroging (nl) f, dehydratie (nl) f
• Finnish: nestehukka (fi)
• French: déshydratation (fr) f
• German: Dehydration (de) f, Dehydrierung f, Austrocknung (de) f (informal)
• Indonesian: dehidrasi (id)
• Irish: díhiodráitiú m
• Korean: 탈수(증상) (talsu(jeungsang))
• Malay: dehidrasi
• Polish: odwodnienie n
• Russian: дегидрата́ция (ru) f (degidratácija)
• Swedish: uttorkning (sv), vätskebrist c
• Ukrainian: дегідрата́ція f (dehidratácija), знево́днення (органі́зму) n (znevódnennja (orhanízmu))
• Welsh: dysychiad m