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desiccate


I - verb
1. preserve by removing all water and liquids from
- carry dehydrated food on your camping trip
Syn:
dehydrate
Derivationally related forms:
desiccation, dehydration (for: dehydrate)
Hypernyms:
preserve, keep
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. remove water from
- All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me
Syn:
dehydrate
Derivationally related forms:
desiccation, dehydration (for: dehydrate)
Hypernyms:
dry, dry out
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
3. lose water or moisture
- In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly
Syn:
exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up
Ant:
hydrate (for: dehydrate)
Derivationally related forms:
desiccation, desiccant, dehydration (for: dehydrate)
Hypernyms:
dry, dry out
Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s

II - adjective
lacking vitality or spirit;
lifeless
- a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata
- a desiccate romance
- "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
Syn:
arid, desiccated
Similar to:
dull

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