to remove the salt from (esp. sea water), usually to make it drinkable
Also: desalinate, desalinize
Derived forms
desalter
noun
Word origin
[1905–10; de- + salt]This word is first recorded in the period 1905–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: one-shot, overcall, push-up, revolving door, white listde- is a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit; derange), descent (degrade; deduce), reversal (detract), or intensity (decompound)
Examples of 'desalt' in a sentence
desalt
In this work, the potentialities of membrane distillation to desalt raw waters were investigated.
Ali Boubakri, Amor Hafiane, Salah Al Tahar Bouguecha 2017, 'Direct contact membrane distillation: Capability to desalt raw water', Arabian Journal of Chemistryhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878535214000380. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)