desalt

verb

de·​salt (ˌ)dē-ˈsȯlt 

desalted; desalting; desalts

transitive verb

: to remove salt from

desalter noun

Examples of desalt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Of the remaining 54 strikes, 22 appeared to damage only desalting and distillation units, 14 appeared to damage only secondary processing units and six appeared to damage both types of units. — Jarrett Ley, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026

However, the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea are so saline that desalting seawater may drive up electricity costs for reverse osmosis. — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Apr. 2018

The city of Camarillo in Ventura County is proposing to desalt water from a local aquifer where supplies have become increasingly saline. — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018

In the Bay Area, the Alameda County Water District has one such facility in Newark that has been desalting about 14,000 acre-feet of water annually since 2003 — about 40 percent of the water supplied by the district. — Devika G. Bansal, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2017

Coastal cities are investing in desalination plants, but desalting technology is simply too expensive to use for agriculture. — Matthew Power, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2008

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1904, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for desalt

• asphalt
• assault
• basalt
• cobalt
• default
• exalt
• gestalt
• alt
• fault
• gault
• halt
• malt

Kids Definition

desalt

verb

de·​salt (ˈ)dē-ˈsȯlt 

: to remove salt from (as seawater)

Medical Definition

desalt

transitive verb

de·​salt (ˈ)dē-ˈsȯlt 

: to remove salt from