hydrate

Etymology

Borrowed from French hydrate, coined by Joseph-Louis Proust, from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + -ate.

noun

  1. (chemistry) A solid compound containing or linked to water molecules.
  2. (inorganic chemistry, rare) Water.

verb

  1. (transitive) To take up, consume or become linked to water.
    A lotion can hydrate the skin.
  2. (slang) To drink water.
  3. (programming) To load data from a database record into an object's variables

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