SALINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salinate mean? 

• SALINATE (verb)
  The verb SALINATE has 1 sense:

1. add salt to

  Familiarity information: SALINATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALINATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they salinate    ... he / she / it salinates   
Past simple: salinated   
Past participle: salinated   
-ing form: salinating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Add salt to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

salinated solution

Hypernyms (to "salinate" 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:

desalinate (remove salt from)

Derivation:

saline (an isotonic solution of sodium chloride and distilled water)