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to rehydrate

to rehydrate

11 3.9
To add water to something dry to make it moist again
  • verb
  • /ˌriːhaɪˈdreɪt/
translation icon : rehidratar
  • 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.

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Examples

  • I feel like it just rehydrates my skin and kind of brings it back to life.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • You should drink plenty of water to rehydrate after exercising on a hot day.

Synonyms

to hydrate
vsto rehydrate
34 3.3

To add water to something or to take water into the body

focuses on restoring something dry back to its original state
to reconstitute
vsto rehydrate
2 5.4

Add water to dried food or powder to make it ready to eat

applies to many dry things including bodies, food, and objects

Antonyms

5 4.1

To lose too much water and become very dry

How Hydrated

to saturate
55 5.2
to rehydrate
11 3.9
to hydrate
34 3.3
to moisten
7 3.0

Surface Forms

rehydrate infinitive
rehydrated past
rehydrated past participle
rehydrating present participle
rehydrates third person singular

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.