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 使（食物）脱水 - [intransitive, transitive]
to lose too much water from your body; to make a person’s body lose too much water （身体）失水，脱水；使（身体）脱水 Runners can dehydrate very quickly in this heat. 天这样热，赛跑运动员很快会脱水。 🔊🔊 - dehydrate somebody
the dehydrating effects of alcohol 酒精引起的脱水
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from de- (expressing removal) + Greek hudros, hudr- ‘water’.