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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (3)

1. preserve by removing all water and liquids from;
- Example: "carry dehydrated food on your camping trip"
[syn: dehydrate, desiccate]

2. remove water from;
- Example: "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me"
[syn: dehydrate, desiccate]

3. lose water or moisture;
- Example: "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"
[syn: exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up, desiccate]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless;
- Example: "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"
- Example: "a desiccate romance"
- Example: "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
[syn: arid, desiccate, desiccated]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Desiccate \Des"ic*cate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desiccated; p. pr. & vb. n. Desiccating.] [L. desiccatus, p. p. of desiccare to dry up; de- + siccare to dry, siccus dry. See Sack wine.] To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit. [1913 Webster] Bodies desiccated by heat or age. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Desiccate \Des"ic*cate\, v. i. To become dry. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

desiccate adj 1: 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, desiccate, desiccated] v 1: preserve by removing all water and liquids from; "carry dehydrated food on your camping trip" [syn: dehydrate, desiccate] 2: remove water from; "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me" [syn: dehydrate, desiccate] 3: lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly" [syn: exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up, desiccate] [ant: hydrate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

71 Moby Thesaurus words for "desiccate": air-dry, anhydrate, bake, blast-freeze, blot, brine, brush, burn, corn, cure, decay, dehumidify, dehydrate, deplete, devitalize, diminish, divest, drain, droop, dry, dry up, dry-cure, dry-salt, embalm, evaporate, exhaust, exsiccate, fade, fade away, fire, flag, freeze, freeze-dry, fume, insolate, irradiate, jerk, kiln, kipper, languish, marinade, marinate, mummify, parch, pickle, pine, preservatize, quick-freeze, refrigerate, rub, salt, scorch, sear, season, shrink, shrivel, smoke, smoke-cure, soak up, sponge, stuff, sun, sun-dry, swab, torrefy, towel, weazen, wilt, wipe, wither, wizen