| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| desalinize |
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| SYLLABICATION: | de·sal·i·nize |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d -s l  -n z |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: de·sal·i·nized, de·sal·i·niz·ing, de·sal·i·niz·es
To remove salts and other chemicals from (sea water or soil, for example). | | OTHER FORMS: | de·sali·ni·zation (-n -z shn) —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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