dewater

From de- +‎ water.

dewater (third-person singular simple present dewaters, present participle dewatering, simple past and past participle dewatered)

1. To remove water from.
   • 2004, David A. Tillman, N. S. Harding, chapter 3, in Fuels of opportunity: characteristics and uses in combustion systems, →ISBN, page 89:

     In the 20^th century, when the mechanical separation of impurities based upon specific gravity separations and the removal of fine coal particles which are difficult to handle and dewater became the technology of choice, the bituminous coal mining industry produced vast quantities of both gob and fines.

   • 2023 December 6, Chi-Hung Tsai, Wen-Tien Tsai, Li-An Kuo, “Effect of Post-Washing on Textural Characteristics of Carbon Materials Derived from Pineapple Peel Biomass”, in Andrei Victor Sandu, editor, Materials‎^[1], →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, →PMCID, archived from the original on 02 February 2025‎^[2]:

     The starting feedstock (i.e., pineapple peel) for producing biochar and activated carbon was collected from a local market (Chienchen district, Kaohsiung, Taiwan). It was first dewatered in the sun and further dried in the air-circulating oven at 105 °C.

• See unwater § Synonyms

• tarweed, watered