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DESALINATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does desalinate mean?
• DESALINATE (verb)
The verb DESALINATE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: DESALINATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they desalinate
... he / she / it desalinates

Past simple: desalinated

Past participle: desalinated

-ing form: desalinating





Past simple: desalinated


Past participle: desalinated


-ing form: desalinating


Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove salt from
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
desalinate; desalinise; desalinize; desalt
Context example:
desalinate water
Hypernyms (to "desalinate" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
salinate (add salt to)
Derivation:
desalination (the removal of salt (especially from sea water))
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