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dehydrator

American  
[dee-hahy-drey-ter] / diˈhaɪ dreɪ tər /

noun

  1. a person or thing that dehydrates.

  2. a device, apparatus, or appliance that dehydrates food for preservation.


Etymology

Origin of dehydrator

dehydrate + -or 2

Example Sentences

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Her mobile phone location data appeared to show her travelling to both places and buying a food dehydrator on the way home.

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Traces of poisonous mushrooms were found in a food dehydrator that Erin Patterson disposed of in a local dump the day after she was discharged from hospital.

From BBC

Among the exhibits released by the judge, are stills of Patterson dumping a food dehydrator at her local tip days after the beef Wellington lunch.

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Patterson took the dehydrator to an E-waste site.

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She admitted to lying to police and medical staff about foraging for wild mushrooms, dumping a food dehydrator used to prepare the meal, and repeatedly wiping her mobile phone – all evidence of her guilt, prosecutors said.

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