dehydrated

«dehydrated» in Mova's school dictionary: Having lost too much water from the body, so you feel… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (dehydrated; more dehydrated); also the past form of dehydrate (dehydrate, dehydrates, dehydrated, dehydrating)

meaning for a pupil

1) (of a person or animal) Having lost too much water from the body, so you feel thirsty, tired, dizzy or have a headache. tree →

2) (of food) Dried, with the water taken out, so it keeps longer: dehydrated fruit, dehydrated soup. tree →

3) (informal, joke) Very thirsty: «I'm so dehydrated after footy.» tree →

sense in the lessons

In health and safety lessons: drink water on hot days, during sport and when ill so you do not get dehydrated; it can be dangerous. In science, dehydrating food removes water so bacteria cannot grow; camping food is often dehydrated. Phrases: «get dehydrated», «become dehydrated», «severely dehydrated», «dehydrated food».

examples

• Drink plenty of water so you don't get dehydrated. tree →
• After running in the heat, he felt dizzy and dehydrated. tree →
• The vet said the puppy was dehydrated. tree →
• We took dehydrated meals on the camping trip. tree →
• Dehydrated apple slices are crunchy. tree →
• Signs of being dehydrated include a dry mouth and dark wee. tree →
• (informal) Pass the water, I'm totally dehydrated! tree →

note

Noun: «dehydration». «De-» means removing, «hydr-» means water. Trap: feeling thirsty is an early sign — do not wait until you are very thirsty. In maths and science, dehydrated food weighs less because the water is gone: 100 g of grapes may become about 25 g of raisins.

In the corpora

• Even mild dehydration can cause headaches, tiredness and poor concentration, and you can be dehydrated before you feel thirsty.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dehydrated» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.