[ US /ˈdɛsəkeɪt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
  1. lose water or moisture
    In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly
  2. remove water from
    All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me
  3. preserve by removing all water and liquids from
    carry dehydrated food on your camping trip
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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
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