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Dehumidify

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To remove atmospheric moisture from.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To reduce the moisture in a body of air; to lower the humidity.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. to remove the moisture from (air or another gas); to reduce the humidity of.

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

v. make less humid

Word Usage

"Ironically, he did this not to cool his home but to cool and dehumidify the printing plant where he worked in 1902 so that, in summer, the printing paper wouldn't curl up from the humidity."

Verb Form

dehumidified dehumidifies dehumidifying

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

dry dry out

Variant

dehumidified

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

make less humid