dehydrate

Other forms of dehydrate

past tense

dehydrated·

present participle

dehydrating·

third person

dehydrates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dehydrate

What does dehydrate mean?

dehydrate means "preserve by removing all water and liquids from". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dehydrate?

dehydrate has 3 syllables: de-hy-drate. The stress falls on "hy". In IPA it is /dɪˈhaɪdɹeɪt/.

What is another word for dehydrate?

Close synonyms include desiccate, desiccate, exsiccate, dry up, desiccate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of dehydrate?

The recorded antonyms are hydrate.

Is dehydrate a common word?

dehydrate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.