dehydrate
verb /ˌdiːhaɪˈdreɪt/
/diːˈhaɪdreɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they dehydrate | /ˌdiːhaɪˈdreɪt/ /diːˈhaɪdreɪt/ |
| he / she / it dehydrates | /ˌdiːhaɪˈdreɪts/ /diːˈhaɪdreɪts/ |
| past simple dehydrated | /ˌdiːhaɪˈdreɪtɪd/ /diːˈhaɪdreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle dehydrated | /ˌdiːhaɪˈdreɪtɪd/ /diːˈhaɪdreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form dehydrating | /ˌdiːhaɪˈdreɪtɪŋ/ /diːˈhaɪdreɪtɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, usually passive] dehydrate something to remove the water from something, especially food, in order to preserve it
- [intransitive, transitive] to lose too much water from your body; to make a person’s body lose too much water
- Runners can dehydrate very quickly in this heat.
- dehydrate somebody the dehydrating effects of alcohol
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from de- (expressing removal) + Greek hudros, hudr- ‘water’.