to rehydrate
- verb
- /ˌriːhaɪˈdreɪt/
- After the drought, the plants needed time to rehydrate and regain their health.
- rehydrate your skin
- rehydrate the peas
- rehydrate dried mushrooms
Before we drink that cup of coffee, we've got to get rehydrated from the night that we lost.
- Before we drink that cup of coffee, we've got to get rehydrated from the night that we lost.
- I feel like it just rehydrates my skin and kind of brings it back to life.
- So that's cause for taking a hot shower perhaps if you have access to a steam room or humidifier and rehydrating those nasal and oral passages.
- You could use any of the mists that you have on hand to kind of rehydrate or re energize your skin.
- I would just be, I'd want to work out and I'd want to get my sleep and I would rehydrate a lot.
- But so, so, so I'm realizing I'm drinking a lot of spit beer because you got to rehydrate.
Examples
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I feel like it just rehydrates my skin and kind of brings it back to life.
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You may experience swelling in your extremities as you rehydrate and discharge the salt.
Fiction book (2000) -
If you leave it to dry out somewhere, it will rehydrate again just as well next year.
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All one then needs to do is pour a little hot water on it in order to rehydrate it.
Blog text (13) -
Drink lots of water to help rehydrate your skin as you heal those cracked heels.
Blog text (16) -
So I went to Cottage Hospital here in Goleta, and I was there two hours and they rehydrated me.
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Thankfully, by the time he left, he was rehydrated, well-fed, and set to go.
Blog text (16) -
His withered flesh starts to rehydrate; his veins start to throb.
Fiction book (1995) -
So that's cause for taking a hot shower perhaps if you have access to a steam room or humidifier and rehydrating those nasal and oral passages.
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You should drink plenty of water to rehydrate after exercising on a hot day.
Synonyms
To add water to something or to take water into the body
Add water to dried food or powder to make it ready to eat
Antonyms
How Hydrated
Surface Forms
Morphology
rehydrate = hydrate (transparent) = re + hydr + ate
The meaning is a straightforward repetition or restoration of the action expressed by 'hydrate': to hydrate again or restore moisture.
Etymology
Rehydrate comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and hydrate meaning 'water', similar to dehydrate. So to rehydrate something is to add water back to it and return it to how it was before.