🥤 Restoring body water 💧 Adding water back

rehydration

3.0

To add water to something dry, like dried fruit, to make it soft

noun
/ˌriːhaɪˈdreɪʃən/

: rehidratación

And then the elastic, the elasticity is the stretchy pull produced by the rehydration of the dried product.

You need this dehydration and rehydration cycle to make that chemistry happen.

Examples

The scientist studied the rehydration of dehydrated plants to understand their recovery process.
To ensure proper nutrition, rehydration of dried food is essential before consumption.
After exercising, rehydration is important to restore the body's fluid balance.

Synonyms

hydration

vsrehydration

14 3.7

The process of something taking in water

is specifically about adding water back to something previously dried

wetting

vsrehydration

1 1.4

The act of making a surface wet

is about restoring internal water to something that had dried out

Antonyms

dehydration

3 3.4

Removing water from food or other things to make them dry

How Hydrated

saturation

4 4.7

rehydration

3.0

hydration

14 3.7

moistening

1 2.3

Surface Forms

rehydration singular

rehydrations plural

Morphology

rehydration = rehydrate (transparent) = re + hydrate + ion

This is a standard process noun formed from the verb 'rehydrate' with '-ion'.

Etymology

Rehydration begins with re- meaning 'again' and hydr- meaning 'water', the same root you see in hydrate. So, rehydration is 'adding water again', which fits when dried food or chemicals are made soft or active by putting water back.