desiccate

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

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

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  arid, desiccated, exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up