See Also: dehydrate(medicine)
dehydrate(dictionary)
dehydrate(dictionary)

dehydrate (iou)



dehydrate verb. L19.
[from DE- 3 + Greek hudr-, hudor water + -ATE3.]
verb trans. Deprive of water, make dry; make (esp. the body) deficient in water; remove water from (esp. a food, in order to preserve it and reduce its bulk); in Chemistry, remove the elements of water from. Freq. as dehydrated ppl adjective. L19.
L. Gould Regular lunches..instead of dehydrated plastic steaks. fig.: Times A series of rather dehydrated arguments between..intellectual types.
verb intrans. Lose water as a constituent. L19.
? In ppl forms freq. stressed on 1st syll.
dehy'dration noun the action of dehydrating; the condition of being dehydrated: M19.