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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dewater .
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Examples
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The company says the stuff has to be "dewatered" and taken to a commercial facility that can handle that waste.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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The coal-burning plant, unlike the Kingston one, stores fly ash on-site temporarily, while it is "dewatered," and then moved off-site to be used as structural fill.
tennessean.com - Top News from The Tennessean, MUSIC CITY U.S.A 2009
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Today, more than half the 15 trillion gallons of sewage Americans flush annually is biologically scrubbed, "dewatered," and processed into products with names like BioEdge,
MotherJones.com Josh Harkinson 2009
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He turned into a gelatinous, amorphous blob, then dewatered.
Roasted Baby Eggplant aka TBTAM 2009
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The work hazards in the dewatered canyon presented an unusual financial issue for Six Companies, as the state of Arizona paid considerably better compensation than Nevada to families of men injured or killed on the job.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The work hazards in the dewatered canyon presented an unusual financial issue for Six Companies, as the state of Arizona paid considerably better compensation than Nevada to families of men injured or killed on the job.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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• Workers try to repair sinking sea wall at Jefferson Memorial: Crews working in a dewatered section of the Tidal Basin prepared to demolish the old concrete sections of the sea wall as part of the $12. 4.million repair project that the agency has been planning since it realized the wall was sinking in 2006.
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On Tuesday crews working in a dewatered section of the Tidal Basin prepared to demolish the old concrete sections of the sea wall as part of the $12.4 million repair project that the National Park Service has been planning since it realized the wall was sinking in 2006.
Workers try to repair sinking sea wall at Jefferson Memorial 2010
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On Tuesday, crews working in a dewatered section of the Tidal Basin prepared to demolish the old concrete sections of the sea wall as part of the $12.4 million repair project that the National Park Service has been planning since it realized the wall was sinking in 2006.
Workers try to repair the sinking sea wall at the Jefferson Memorial 2010
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She relates the sorry history of streams dewatered and diverted, water contaminated and rivers degraded, from the damage caused by obvious physical changes to the chemical pollutants that invisibly poison wells. '
eggoabbas commented on the word dewatered
Drained of water. Wordnik found some examples. Another is:
"Rivers are dewatered from lack of water."
from:
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4801/
July 12, 2009