MEANING
To remove dissolved salts from water or another material.
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Words that belong together
- desalinate seawater
- a desalinated supply
- desalinate brackish water
On the page
The station desalinated its intake before distributing water to the living quarters.
They could desalinate the brackish source, but disposing of the concentrated brine remained a problem.
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Word forms
- Base
- desalinate
- Past tense
- desalinated
- Past participle
- desalinated
- Present participle
- desalinating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- desalinate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are desalinating
- Present perfect
- have/has desalinated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been desalinating
- Past
- desalinated
- Past continuous
- was/were desalinating
- Past perfect
- had desalinated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been desalinating
- Future
- will desalinate
- Future continuous
- will be desalinating
- Future perfect
- will have desalinated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been desalinating
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: desalinate; desalinates; desalinated; desalinated; desalinating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: desalinates.
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