Sample sentences for DESICCATE

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Definition

to remove moisture from something

More rarely, desiccate can mean to "remove the vitality" from something.

Their desiccated remains were found in the old lake bed.

desiccated = dried out

a desiccate romance
Long before the Egyptian pharos, bodies were naturally mummified as they were desiccated by the desert heat and dry air.
the trees were mulberries and locusts and sycamores—trees that partook also of the foul desiccation which surrounded the houses;
William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury

desiccation = lack of vitality (removal of moisture/life)

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

The desiccated bellows refilled, then pin-punctured the swamp air out in faint wails:
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes

desiccated = dried out

What they dredged smoking out of the ground looked like some desiccated effigy from a tomb.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses

desiccated = dried out

A few shrivelled and blackened vestiges of what had once been stuffed animals, desiccated mummies in jars that had once held spirit, a brown dust of departed plants:
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine

desiccated = dried out

"Let Vitya handle it," he said, poking his shoe at a desiccated furball on the floor —dead mouse?
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
Reluctantly she followed her brother among the desiccated rocks.
James Vance Marshall -- Walkabout
Animal life wears a hard, dry skin or an outer skeleton to defy the desiccation.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley

Scattered around her were old pieces of lumber—some cracked and desiccated, others broken into kindling.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
I washed her soiled and desiccated body in warm water scented with sandalwood.
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
That his heart was shriveled, his organs desiccated.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
She looked like she'd been stuck in a cool, dark mausoleum for decades, slowly withering into a desiccated husk.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
Crumbley had become a desiccated cast of himself, so fragile that a strong wind could blow him apart.
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
At least it would be something hot and wet in my desiccated mouth.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
The desiccated loaf remained swathed up in the scullery.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
He took a step backward, walking toward the stone steps, avoiding the desiccated remains of people and animals on the floor.
Neil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book
He'd stumbled upon more than one desiccated corpse that had clearly been someone's dinner.
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
On one wall, like coats on a coatrack, hung the desiccated, skeletal remains of two people—an adult and a small child.
Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus

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