Dehydration

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dehydration \De`hy*dra"tion\, n. (Chem.)
     The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition
     of a body from which the water has been removed.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  dehydration
       n 1: dryness resulting from the removal of water [syn: {desiccation}]
       2: depletion of bodily fluids
       3: the process of extracting moisture [syn: {desiccation}, {drying
          up}, {evaporation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "dehydration":
     air-drying, anhydration, blast-freezing, bottling, brining,
     canning, corning, curing, dehumidification, desiccation, drainage,
     dry-curing, drying, drying up, embalming, evaporation,
     freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, insolation, irradiation, jerking,
     marination, mummification, pickling, potting, quick-freezing,
     refrigeration, salting, seasoning, smoking, stuffing, taxidermy,
     tinning, withering