dehydrate

1. V-T When something such as food is dehydrated, all the water is removed from it, often in order to preserve it. 使脫水[usu passive]

Normally specimens have to be dehydrated. 通常標(biāo)本必須得脫水。

2. V-T/V-I If you dehydrate or if something dehydrates you, you lose too much water from your body so that you feel weak or ill. 使脫水; (指人) 脫水

People can dehydrate in weather like this. 人在這樣的天氣裡會(huì)脫水。

3. dehydrationN-UNCOUNT 脫水

...a child who's got diarrhoea and is suffering from dehydration. …一個(gè)得了腹瀉竝患脫水的孩子。