[
US
/ˈdɛsəkeɪt/
]
ADJECTIVE
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lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
a desiccate romance
a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata
a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery
VERB
-
lose water or moisture
In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly -
remove water from
All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me -
preserve by removing all water and liquids from
carry dehydrated food on your camping trip
How To Use desiccate In A Sentence
- Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach.
- There are 2.5 billion mummified, skinned, pressed, pinned, stained, frozen, pickled, skeletal-bleached, and desiccated dead specimens of species worldwide.
- Finally, they shrink by as much as half as they desiccate naturally. Groundwork: Beans, cute and dried
- We got up at six to get the bird into the oven, so it can be totally desiccated, friable, granular, sabulous, arenaceous, the way turkey always is. A vlog about Thanksgiving squirrel, Mancow, guns, law school, commenters, and Madison versus New York.
- When the tide is low, terrestrial conditions can heat and desiccate organisms beyond their tolerances.
- Normally, we portray our politicians as desiccated calculating machines, charlatans or megalomaniacs.
- Yet here they too were mummified by natural means, as corrosive body fluids drained away into the same hot dry sand which desiccated and preserved their skin, hair and nails.
- Each individual replicate was desiccated separately in its own sterile jar containing a single plastic float above the saturated salt solution.
- If, instead of injecting material from an infected rabbit to an uninfected rabbit directly, they desiccated the material first and waited a period of days, the virulence of the disease declined rapidly.
- As my brain floods with memories of that evening, unreachable now, I squeeze the desiccated cork tightly in my fist, and begin to cry. LOVE YOU MADLY