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SALINATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they salinate ... he / she / it salinates
Past simple: salinated
Past participle: salinated
-ing form: salinating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Add salt to
Example:
salinated solution
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "salinate" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
desalinate (remove salt from)
Derivation:
saline (an isotonic solution of sodium chloride and distilled water)
