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dehydrate
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Word definitions for dehydrate in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ High temperatures make people dehydrate very quickly. ▪ The milk is dehydrated and stored as powder. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I shove aside a pile of dehydrated red and black typewriter ribbons and set my machine down with ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1854, from de- + hydrate (v.). A chemical term at first, given a broader extension 1880s. Related: Dehydration (1834).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. to lose or remove water; to dry
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
dehydrate \de*hy"drate\, v. t. To deprive of water; to render free from water; as, to dehydrate alcohol; to dehydrate food for preservation.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. preserve by removing all water and liquids from; "carry dehydrated food on your camping trip" [syn: desiccate ] remove water from; "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me" [syn: desiccate ] lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated ...
Usage examples of dehydrate.
It greatly increases your appetite for carbohydrates, dehydrates you, and will not give you the fat loss you are probably looking for.
By the time you are thirsty, you are already 1 to 2 percent dehydrated and aging your cells at a rapid rate.
Because your brain is 80 percent water, when you are dehydrated, your mood is crippled.
By the time your thirst indicator kicks in, you are already 1 to 2 percent dehydrated, at which time with luck the body will rush to the rescue and trigger behaviors that cause you to drink more water or lie down until the body cools off.
When you are dehydrated, your level of energy is decreased and your brain function is inefficient.
The nutrients in the juice will slow down the absorption of the water by your dehydrated system.
Most of the cases were for damaged feet and hands, and dehydrated children.
He gulped the first glass as his dehydrated tissues sucked up the moisture, then sipped a second cup, while he unwrapped a package of dry protein wafers and wolfed them down.
She was dehydrated and on the brink of starvation, but refused to allow it to affect her.
Truth to tell, he was so dehydrated, his lips so swollen and cracked, his tongue such a useless slab of overcooked meat, that anyone else listening would have been able to discern nothing much beyond inarticulate grunts.
An Air Force duty officer brought Ebby a tray filled with warmed Spam and dehydrated mashed potatoes and offered him the use of a cot in a back room.
An average potato, on its long journey from loamy meadow to those packets of dehydrated granules on your supermarket shelves, undergoes such intricate torture that its aptitude for gumminess is amplified many times over.
The Leggo was a less chubby version of the Fish, as if, given the fact that the Leggo had published rather than perished to become Chief, all the human juice had been sucked out of him, and he had been left drained, dehydrated, even uremic.
The colored boxes contained dehydrated potatoes and wheat pilaf, precooked peas, lentils, rice mix.
Worcestershire sauce, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, monosodium glutamate, nonfat dry milk, dehydrated onions, flavoring, sugar, caramel color, spice, cysteine and thiamine hydrochloride, gum arabic.