The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word HYDRATE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result HYDRATE
- Doctor’s alter ego trapping rodent in compound
- Cover broadcast on charge to supply water
- Slow up, being restricted by explosive chemical
- Supply liquid, beating dry heat
- Hard yet malleable? Add water
- The Yard’s tipsy soak
- Water grass in London park
- Water-containing chemical he has injected behind, going up!
- Compound's hard, yet fractured
- Terribly dry, detest to go outside compound
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What does HYDRATE mean?
HYDRATE noun- A solid compound containing or linked to water molecules.
- Water.
- To take up, consume or become linked to water.
- To drink water.
- To load data from a database record into an object's variables