Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove water from (a waste product or streambed, for example).
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- verb To remove
water from.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Barrick will first "dewater" the mountain, sucking all the groundwater out, and then extract gold using the destructive cyanide heap-leaching method.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle: Unearthed: The News Without the Chaff 2009
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The city's primary source of water is Murry Springs, which officials acknowledge could dry up if the mine is allowed to pump millions of gallons of water to "dewater" an area of saturated rock to expand the mine.
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The city's primary source of water is Murry Springs, which officials acknowledge could dry up if the mine is allowed to pump millions of gallons of water to "dewater" an area of saturated rock to expand the mine.
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Ohio-based AlgaeVenture Systems announced a new way to "dewater" algae using capillary action rather than centrifuges.
Livescience.com 2009
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Ms. TRACY DYER (British Petroleum): We dewater it, as well.
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Each locker held axes, firefighting hoses, and stretchers along with pumps used to dewater compartments.
The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009
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Yes, let us dewater the box, have a giant tailings pile to silt in what is left and spread beryllium ore dust all over.
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Rapuano later told Congress that no one at the White House woke him to tell him about the report, and he didn't realize the extent of the damage until 6 the following morning, when another Homeland bulletin warned that "it could take months to dewater" the city.
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We have started to -- the dewater plan, what that consists of is breaching levees where storm damage surge is still above the lake levels and the palette of sandbag and rock closures, they are being made where levees are washed out during the storm.
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This is an 18-inch pump that is drawing water out of that neighborhood slowly but surely, part of the whole effort to, as they say, dewater New Orleans.
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