dewatered

Had liquid extracted

Dewatered means having had water removed.

The term appears most often in technical contexts: dewatered sludge, dewatered soil, dewatered construction sites.

Municipal treatment plants dewater waste to reduce volume.

Engineers dewater excavation areas to work in dry conditions.

The word implies mechanical or industrial removal rather than natural drying.

industrial

sludge

Semi-solid waste material

slurry · centrifuge · clarifier · thickener · effluent · leachate · wastewater · mining · papermaking · dredged

food

spinach

Edible dark green leaves

pressed · squeezed · drained · wrung · blanched · thawed · frozen · colander · strainer

drained

emptied

Removed all contents from

evacuated · discharged · voided · cleared · purged · withdrawn · decanted · bailed · unwatered · dried-out

engineering

pumps

Laceless dress shoes

wells · cofferdam · geotechnical · construction · aquifer · permeability · seepage · drainage · submersible · hydrology

Opposites
moisture content

dewateredsaturated

Thoroughly soaked through

soaked · waterlogged · rewatered · drenched · sodden

Family

dewatering

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G