DEHYDROGENATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dehydrogenate mean? 

• DEHYDROGENATE (verb)
  The verb DEHYDROGENATE has 1 sense:

1. remove hydrogen from

  Familiarity information: DEHYDROGENATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEHYDROGENATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dehydrogenate    ... he / she / it dehydrogenates   
Past simple: dehydrogenated   
Past participle: dehydrogenated   
-ing form: dehydrogenating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove hydrogen from

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "dehydrogenate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dehydrogenate"):

oxygenise; oxygenize (dehydrogenate with oxygen)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

hydrogenate (combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen; add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound))