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dehydrative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
de-hy-dra-tive
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That causes, or is accompanied by, dehydration

Etymology

Etymology tree English dehydrate Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English dehydrative From dehydrate + -ive.

Inflected Forms

more dehydrative (comparative) most dehydrative (superlative)

Questions

What does dehydrative mean?
That causes, or is accompanied by, dehydration
Where does dehydrative come from?
Etymology tree English dehydrate Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English dehydrative From dehydrate + -ive.

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