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Definition
to remove moisture from somethingMore 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
- The desiccated bellows refilled, then pin-punctured the swamp air out in faint wails:Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- What they dredged smoking out of the ground looked like some desiccated effigy from a tomb.Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
- 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
- "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
desiccation = lack of vitality (removal of moisture/life)
desiccated = dried out
desiccated = dried out
desiccated = dried out