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# chlorinate

«chlorinate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To add chlorine to water to kill germs and make it safe…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (chlorinate, chlorinates, chlorinated, chlorinating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To add chlorine to water to kill germs and make it safe for drinking or swimming. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorinate/#m1)

2) (chemistry) To combine a substance with chlorine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorinate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons on clean water, towns chlorinate drinking water, which has saved millions of lives by stopping diseases like cholera. At swimming pools, the water is chlorinated to keep it clean. It tells the reader about keeping water germ-free.

### examples

- They chlorinate the pool water every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorinate/#x1)
- Our tap water is chlorinated to kill germs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorinate/#x2)
- Chlorinating drinking water stops cholera. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorinate/#x3)
- The lifeguard tested how chlorinated the pool was. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorinate/#x4)
- Engineers chlorinate the water at the treatment works. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorinate/#x5)
- Chlorinated water can make your hair feel dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorinate/#x6)

### note

Regular verb: chlorinated, chlorinating. Noun: chlorination. Said «KLOR-in-ate». Safety: the chlorine chemicals used to treat pools are dangerous on their own and are handled only by trained adults.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chlorinate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorinate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.