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To remove the salt from something, especially from seawater for use in a domestic water supply
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
remove salt from
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: desalt, desalinize, desalinise
Antonyms: salinate
Broader terms: change
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h1 Proto-Indo-European *déh1 Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English saline Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English salinate English desalinate From de- + salinate.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Azerbaijani:
duzsuzlaşdırmaq
— remove the salt from something
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Catalan:
dessalar
— remove the salt from something
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Catalan:
dessalinitzar
— remove the salt from something
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Danish:
afsalte
— remove the salt from something
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Finnish:
poistaa suola
— remove the salt from something
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Finnish:
desalinoida
— remove the salt from something
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French:
dessaler
— remove the salt from something
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Galician:
desalgar
— remove the salt from something
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German:
entsalzen
— remove the salt from something
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Greek:
αφαλατώνω
(afalatóno)
— remove the salt from something
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Greek:
ξαρμυρίζω
(xarmyrízo)
— remove the salt from something
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Ido:
dessalizar
— remove the salt from something
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Italian:
desalinizzare
— remove the salt from something
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Norwegian Bokmål:
avsalte
— remove the salt from something
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Polish:
odsalać
— remove the salt from something
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Polish:
odsolić
— remove the salt from something
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Romanian:
desaliniza
— remove the salt from something
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Serbo-Croatian:
odsoliti
— remove the salt from something
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Spanish:
desalar
— remove the salt from something
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Spanish:
desalinizar
— remove the salt from something
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Vietnamese:
khử muối
— remove the salt from something
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Walloon:
dissaler
— remove the salt from something