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UK
/dˈɛsɪkˌeɪtɪd/
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[ 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.
- Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach.
- Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power. 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
- 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.