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UK
/dˈɛsɪkˌeɪtɪd/
]
[ US /ˈdɛsəkeɪtəd/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛsəkeɪtəd/ ]
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 -
preserved by removing natural moisture
shredded and desiccated coconut meat
dried fruit
dried beef
dehydrated eggs -
thoroughly dried out
old boxes of desiccated Cuban cigars
dried-out boards beginning to split
How To Use desiccated In A Sentence
- Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach.
- Insatiable reader that I was, I’d soon have desiccated from the need to imbibe stories if we had not discovered the local library. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A love song to libraries
- To a nurseryman the past was about as much use as a tray of desiccated seedlings. TALES OF THE ROSE TREE: Ravishing Rhododendrons and their Travels Around the World
- There are 2.5 billion mummified, skinned, pressed, pinned, stained, frozen, pickled, skeletal-bleached, and desiccated dead specimens of species worldwide.
- 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.
- 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