Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To remove hydrogen from.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as dehydrogenize.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb (Chem.) To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb chemistry to remove hydrogen from a substance

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb remove hydrogen from

Etymologies

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de- +‎ hydrogenate

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  • But there is an interesting test out there, measuring what's called alcohol dehydrogenate, which is an enzyme in your blood that actually breaks down alcohol.

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  • This will be integrated into SIBUR's new complex to dehydrogenate propane and manufacture polypropylene in Tobolsk.

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