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# desalt

verb (desalt, desalts, desalted, desalting)

«desalt» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To desalt something is to remove salt from it, such as seawater or salty food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desalt/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science and geography, desalting (desalination) turns seawater into drinking water, important in dry countries such as parts of Australia and the Middle East. In cooking, salted fish or ham is soaked in water to desalt it.

### Examples

- The plant desalts seawater to make drinking water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desalt/#x1)
- Soak the salty fish overnight to desalt it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desalt/#x2)
- Boiling and catching the steam can desalt water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desalt/#x3)
- Some dry countries desalt sea water for their cities. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desalt/#x4)
- We desalted salty water in a science experiment using evaporation. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desalt/#x5)
- Desalted water must still be clean to drink safely. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desalt/#x6)

### Note

Regular verb. The more common word is desalinate; noun: desalination. In our experiment, the salt stays behind when the water evaporates.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «desalt» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desalt/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«desalt» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/desalt.html) on Mova free.