rehydrateverb
/ˌriː.haɪ.ˈdreɪt//ˌriː.haɪ.ˈdreɪt/[ I or T ] to drink water or other liquids because you do not have enough water in your body, or to put water or liquids into another person's or animal's body:
The experts say that if you don't rehydrate completely, subsequent runs can be affected.
The syringe delivered saline solution to rehydrate the animal.
[ T ] If you rehydrate something that has had water removed from it or is too dry, you make it absorb water:
Cover the mushrooms with water and rehydrate them for 10 minutes.
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- If you wake up with a pounding headache, rehydrate with water and with drinks that contain fructose.
- You may not be thirsty, but your body needs to rehydrate as soon as possible.
- First the astronauts have to force themselves to drink a salty solution to rehydrate.
- At the facility, workers and veterinarians examine and rehydrate the oil victims.
- Use a deep conditioner once a week to rehydrate hair.
- Rehydrate dried apples and bananas by cooking them in water until they are soft.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Recovering from illness
- be on the mend idiom
- bounce
- bounce back
- clear (sth) up
- come round
- convalescence
- convalescent
- correct
- feel like a new woman/man idiom
- get over sth/sb
- heal
- hold
- lacunar
- mend
- new
- pull
- recuperate
- rehab
- rehabilitation
- rose
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