Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To desalinize.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb to remove the salt from (a solution of salt).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
remove salt from; todesalinate , as of sea water.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove salt from
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Examples
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I double washed my hair and applied conditioner twice, grateful for the six showerheads so I could fully desalt in sextuple time.
Must Love Black Kelly McClymer 2008
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I double washed my hair and applied conditioner twice, grateful for the six showerheads so I could fully desalt in sextuple time.
Must Love Black Kelly McClymer 2008
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I double washed my hair and applied conditioner twice, grateful for the six showerheads so I could fully desalt in sextuple time.
Must Love Black Kelly McClymer 2008
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I double washed my hair and applied conditioner twice, grateful for the six showerheads so I could fully desalt in sextuple time.
Must Love Black Kelly McClymer 2008
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Tuesday's agreement extends existing projects between the university and the project and provides for the development of new ones - including using nuclear power to desalt sea water and the testing of plant components of the PBMR.
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Cooks first reconstitute and desalt it by soaking it for hours to days in several changes of water.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Cooks first reconstitute and desalt it by soaking it for hours to days in several changes of water.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The undertaking of the Qatarra depression plan to provide an area for the development in this region by the cutting of a canal from the Mediterranean to the depression using pen-stocks to provide power to desalt the plentiful brackish water in the aquifer beneath the depression and provide power and irrigation for a sizable area.
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These plants will function for nearly six to eight hours daily to desalt the salt water.
Green Diary AditiJ 2010
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We can't desalt our way out of this problem; the solution has to be larger and more dramatic.
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