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

Past simple: salinated

Past participle: salinated

-ing form: salinating





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)
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