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Definition: Dehydrate |
DehydrateVerb1. Lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dehydrate" was first used: 1876. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mechanical Engineering | To remove water from any substance. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. To render free from water b. The process of driving water from a hydrated mineral, e.g., gypsum,CaSO4 .2H2 O , to anhydrite, CaSO4 . e.g., gypsum,CaSO4 .2H2 O , to anhydrite, CaSO4 . (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DehydrateSynonyms: desiccate (v), dry up (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: hydrate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dryness | Desiccate, dehydrate, exsiccate; parch. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dehydrate |
| Specialty definitions using "dehydrate": CALCINER, GYPSUM, Contact Pesticide ♦ DEHYDRATOR TENDER, drier attendant, DRIER TENDER, DRY-HOUSE TENDER ♦ EVAPORATOR OPERATOR ♦ histologic technologist, HISTOTECHNOLOGIST ♦ nut-dehydrator operator ♦ SEPARATOR TENDER II ♦ tissue technologis ♦ VACUUM DRIER OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | When I was a kid I used to dehydrate, and my piss came out like snot. (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mrs. Frank Rogers looking at a tray of blanched beans on the dryer on top of a range. The beans will dehydrate in the dryer.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Dehydrate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 44.44% of the time. "Dehydrate" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 44.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 44.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dehydrate | 32 |
dehydrate food | 13 |
dehydrate fruit | 5 |
dehydrate strawberry | 3 |
apricot dehydrate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dehydrate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dehidratoj, i heq ujët (bail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جفف (desiccate, drain off, dry, exsiccate, mangle, mummify, parch, sear, season, spin), أزال الماء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обезводнявам (drain), дехидрирам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 脱水 (dehydrated, Desiccate, Desiccated, Desiccating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dehydrovat, vysychat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | toerre (to dry out, unwater) to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | drogen (bake, dehumidify, dry, drying, seasoning, stove), water onttrekken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پسابش داشتن , وابشت کردن , اب چیزی راگرفتن , بی اب کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | poistaa kosteus (dehumidify), kuivata (dehumidify, drain, dry, wipe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | déshydrater, déhydrater. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | dehydrieren, wasser entziehen, trocknen (bake, cure, dehumidify, desiccate, desiccation, dry, drying, parch, seasoning, stove, to dehumidify, to dry, towel down), entwässern (dehydration, dewatering, drain, drainage, draining, to drain), entfeuchten (dehumidify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αφυδατώνω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ליבש (desiccate, drain, dry, wither). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | dehidratál (to dehydrate), víztelenít (bled, dehydration, to bleed, to dehydrate, to dewater, to fork). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menjadi kering, menghilangkan air. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | disidratare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 탈수하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jee-ushtaghey (dehydration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ehydrateday desidratar. (various references) deshidrata (desiccate), se deshidrata. (various references) обезвоживать. (various references) dehidrirati. (various references) deshidratar. (various references) torka (aridity, drought, dry, dryness, rough-dry, season, sponge down, wipe). (various references) suyunu almak (dewater), kurutmak (air, bake, corn, cure, deplete, desiccate, drain, dry, dry up, exhaust, parch, scorch, sear, season, shrivel, torrefy, weather, wither). (various references) втрачати воду, збезводнювати (evaporate), дегідратувати. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | hydor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dehydrate": dehydrated, dehydrates. (additional references) | |
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"Dehydrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dehyrdrate, dihydrate, dihydride, dihydrogen, Rehidrat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dehydrate" (pronounced duhī"drāt) |
| 6 | -h ī" d r ā t | rehydrate. |
| 3 | -r ā t | chlorate, perchlorate, prostrate, vibrate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-h-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: hydrated, threaded. | |
-2 letters: adhered, derated, earthed, hearted, hydrate, redated, redhead, thready, treaded. | |
-3 letters: adhere, aether, darted, deader, dearth, deathy, derate, drayed, earthy, eatery, hatred, headed, header, hearty, heated, heater, herded, hereat, hydrae, redate, redyed, reheat, teared, tedder, thread, traded, yarded. | |
-4 letters: adder, arete, dared, dated, dater, deary, death, deedy, derat, deray, deter, dread, dreed, dryad, eared, earth, eater, ether, haded, hardy, hared, hated, hater, hayed, hayer, heady, heard, heart, heder, hydra, rated, rathe, rayed, readd, ready, reded, redye, reedy, rhyta, tardy, tared, teary, teddy, there, three, trade, tread, treed, tyred. | |
-5 letters: aery, arty, dare, dart, date, dead, dear, deed, deer, deet, dere, drat, dray, dree, dyad, dyed, dyer, eath, eddy, eery, eyed, eyer, eyra, eyre, hade, haed, haet, hard, hare, hart, hate, head, hear, heat, heed, herd, here, hyte, rate, rath, read, redd, rede, reed, rete, rhea, tahr, tare, tear, teed, thae, thee, they, trad, tray, tree, trey, tyee, tyer, tyre, yard, yare, yeah, year. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-h-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: dehydrated, dehydrates, rehydrated. | |
+3 letters: hemihydrated, hydrogenated. | |
+4 letters: butyraldehyde, coldheartedly, dehydrogenate, downheartedly, hardheartedly, kindheartedly. | |
+5 letters: butyraldehydes, dehydrogenated, dehydrogenates, dimenhydrinate, glutaraldehyde. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 68 79 64 72 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .... -.--. -.. .-. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101000 01111001 01100100 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e h y d r a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0068 0079 0064 0072 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387174917084678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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