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DESALINATE
Definition of DESALINATE
verb
To remove the salt from something, especially from seawater for use in a domestic water supply
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
DESALINATE carries 3 further meanings.
transitive verb
To desalinize.
transitive verb
to remove the salt from, especially from water.
“it is necessary to desalinate sea water to make it fit to drink”
verb
remove salt from
Where it comes from
From de- + salinate.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, DESALINATE · 1 relative in the game
DESALINATE in a sentence
“Seven billion people will need a lot of energy to produce food, especially in the expanding number of regions that use energy to pump, treat, move, desalinate or otherwise make water fit for agricultural uses.”
Terry Tamminen: The Five Scariest Things About Halloween 2011, 2011
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DESALINATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 124 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 16, 5 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DESALINATE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AADEEILNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and A appear more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of DESALINATE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start DESALI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found DESALINATE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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