Dehydrate

//diːhaɪˈdɹeɪt//

Synonyms for "dehydrate" (67 found)

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Closest matches (14)

Verb(3 words)

air-dry anhydrate bake blast-freeze blot brine brush burn coagulate corn cure

Strong matches (20)

dehumidify desiccate dewater drain dry dry cure dry-cure dry-salt embalm evaporate exsiccate fire freeze freeze dry freeze-dry fume insolate irradiate jerk

Verb(1 words)

dry up

Related words (33)

kiln kipper marinade marinate mummify parch pickle preservatize preserve quick-freeze refrigerate rub salt scorch sear season shrivel smoke smoke-cure soak up

Show 11 more words

sponge stuff sun sun-dry swab torrefy towel weazen wipe wither wizen

Verb(2 words)

parch unwater

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

4 entries

dry dry out keep preserve

Antonyms

3 entries

hydrate moisturize

derived

6 entries

cryodehydrate dehydratable dehydratase dehydrative dehydrator diedrate

derived from

1 entries

hydrate

manner of

2 entries

dry preserve

related to

3 entries

dry lose remove

Translations

34 translations across 26 languages.

Catalan

1 entries

deshidratar verb (to lose or remove water)

Czech

1 entries

dehydrovat verb (to lose or remove water)

Danish

1 entries

dehydrere verb (to lose or remove water)

Dutch

1 entries

dehydrateren verb (to lose or remove water)

Finnish

3 entries

kuivata verb (to lose or remove water)
kuivattaa verb (to lose or remove water)
poistaa vesi verb (to lose or remove water)

French

1 entries

déshydrater verb (to lose or remove water)

Galician

1 entries

deshidratar verb (to lose or remove water)

German

1 entries

dehydrieren verb (to lose or remove water)

Indonesian

1 entries

mendehidrasi verb (to lose or remove water)

Italian

1 entries

disidratare verb (to lose or remove water)

Japanese

1 entries

脱水する verb (to lose or remove water)

Kazakh

1 entries

сусыздандыру verb (to lose or remove water)

Manx

1 entries

jee-ushtaghey verb (to lose or remove water)

Marathi

2 entries

निर्जल करणे verb (to lose or remove water)
निर्जल होणे verb (to lose or remove water)

Māori

3 entries

tauraki verb (to lose or remove water)
whakamaroke verb (to lose or remove water)
whakatārehe verb (to lose or remove water)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

قورومق verb (to lose or remove water)

Polish

2 entries

odwadniać verb (to lose or remove water)
odwodnić verb (to lose or remove water)

Portuguese

1 entries

desidratar verb (to lose or remove water)

Romanian

1 entries

deshidrata verb (to lose or remove water)

Russian

3 entries

дегидрати́ровать verb (to lose or remove water)
обезво́дить verb (to lose or remove water)
обезво́живать verb (to lose or remove water)

Spanish

1 entries

deshidratar verb (to lose or remove water)

Swedish

1 entries

torka ut verb (to lose or remove water)

Tagalog

1 entries

patuyuin verb (to lose or remove water)

Tibetan

1 entries

ཞ་རློན་འཐེན verb (to lose or remove water)

Turkish

1 entries

kurumak verb (to lose or remove water)

Welsh

1 entries

dadhydradu verb (to lose or remove water)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I'm worried she'll dehydrate.

Source: tatoeba (276077)

Before their canoe trip down the Yukon River, Tom and Mary had decided to dehydrate their fruits and vegetables in order to take up less space.

Source: tatoeba (9969558)

dehydrate food

Source: wiktionary

Running in the heat can quickly dehydrate you.

Source: wiktionary

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