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Recent Examples of dehydrate Avoid sugary drinks and alcohol, which can dehydrate you. Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 18 Aug. 2025 Skin becomes dehydrated and dull, whilst fine lines take hold and pores dilate. Laia Farran Graves, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025 Machines like the Lomi ($649) and the Mill ($999) grind up food scraps overnight and dehydrate them into an odorless, soil-like blend that can be added to any compost stream. Erin Schwartz, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2025 At best, becoming dehydrated will make your day feel longer and leave you feeling tired. Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dehydrate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dehydrate
Verb
  • The problem comes when ideological casting choices begin to undermine the narrative, contravening Grisham’s famously effective structure and pacing.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Ten Hag’s first season at United yielded silverware and a third-place league finish, but also had bouts of concerning away form, with tactical weaknesses that would eventually spread and critically undermine his plans for the future.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Most need to be dried on the tumble dry low setting to preserve their quality.
    Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Heated air dries the clothes and breaks down the ozone, with sensors and filters ensuring no harmful gases or droplets are released.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Israeli strikes severely weakened Hezbollah – culminating in the assassination of its revered leader, Hassan Nasrallah – and significantly curtailed the group’s domestic clout.
    Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Symptoms related to Listeria monocytogenes Listeria is especially harmful to people whose immune system is weakened or not fully developed but can also impact healthy individuals.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The cool-season annual needs full sun and well-draining soil to grow, and prefers mild temperatures.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Fraudulent pet listings are leaving victims emotionally devastated and financially drained, Dennis Horton, senior director of the Rockford Regional Office, said in the announcement.
    Abreanna Blose, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In a world that has been desiccated of its resources, and of its ability to care about each other, the people in this novel don’t cry anymore.
    Emily Temple May 27, Literary Hub, 27 May 2025
  • Avoid hot, exposed sites which will cause foliage to desiccate.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • With all other options seemingly exhausted, Una and Spock decide to take another path by getting in touch with their crewmates’ katras, roughly the Vulcan term for the soul, though the Vulcans would probably not want to use that term.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Jones remained on Ohio's death row for decades, exhausting most of his appeals, until Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Wende Cross overturned his murder conviction, freed him from prison and granted him a new trial two years ago.
    Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hollywood seems to be petrified of AI.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
  • So don’t go around being petrified of having your esophagus rupture someday.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • Officials said that none of the passengers on the boat were wearing life jackets at the time of the incident, and alcohol is not believed to have been a factor in the crash.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Rare was the big public event in which none of the bold names were telling red-carpet interlocutors that were wearing Armani.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Dehydrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dehydrate. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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