dewaterv.
/diːˈwɔːtə/ transitive. To remove the water from.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > remove water or moisture from
dehydrate1877
dewater1929
dehumidify1932
1909 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1929 Times 10 May 22/3 The Lagan Navigation Company shall..dewater such portion of the canal.
1930 Engineering 4 Apr. 436/1 These will be employed when de-watering of the culvert is necessary.
1962 Times 1 Feb. 3/4 Construction of and dewatering inside a cofferdam.
1969 Washington Post 22 Feb. B1/4 Water consumption drops and the tunnel can be, in the jargon of the engineers, ‘dewatered’. That means drained.
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deˈwatered adj.
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1923 Glasgow Herald 10 Oct. 10 There is now more hope of getting through ‘dewatered’ roadways.
deˈwatering n. and adj.
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1960 E. L. Delmar-Morgan Cruising Yacht Equipm. & Navigation vi. 81 This type of dewatering protective was used very widely on flooded machinery.
1970 Fremdsprachen XIV. 135 The carbon slurry is drawn off the bottom of the column to one of the dewatering bins.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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