dehydration

English

Etymology

de- +‎ hydration

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dehydration (countable and uncountable, plural dehydrations)

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

Translations

act or process of freeing from water

• Catalan: deshidratació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 脫水／脱水 (zh) (tuōshuǐ), 脱水 (zh) (tuōshuǐ)

• Czech: dehydratace 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)
• Irish: díhiodráitiú m
• Italian: disidratazione (it)
• Japanese: 脱水 (だっすい, dassui)
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• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• 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 c, dehydrering c
• Tagalog: hitubig
• Telugu: నిర్జలీకరణము (te) (nirjalīkaraṇamu)
• Welsh: dysychiad m

condition in which water in the body drops below normal levels

• Arabic: جَفاف m (jafāf), تَجْفاف m (tajfāf)
• German: Dehydration (de) f, Dehydrierung f, Austrocknung (de) f (informal)
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• Irish: díhiodráitiú m
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: dysychiad m