DEHYDROGENATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they dehydrogenate ... he / she / it dehydrogenates

Past simple: dehydrogenated

Past participle: dehydrogenated

-ing form: dehydrogenating

Meaning:

Remove hydrogen from

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "dehydrogenate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dehydrogenate"):

oxygenise; oxygenize (dehydrogenate with oxygen)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

hydrogenate (combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen; add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound))