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Examples of desalinate in a Sentence
The company is building a plant that will desalinate seawater.
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The cannon was taken to a conservation lab at the Washington Navy Yard to be desalinated and stabilized.
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They were forced to stop for a week in the Azores when their water desalinating equipment broke.
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Whenever the price of other water goes up, desalinating Pacific waters becomes more enticing.
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In Western Australia, desalinated water has been injected to recharge the large aquifer that Perth, Australia's driest city, taps for drinking water.
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First Known Use of desalinate
1949
DESALINATE Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of desalinate for English Language Learners
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: to remove salt from (something, such as water)
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