The Only Use of
desiccate
in
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- Daylight streamed through the hole onto a mound of splintered floorboards and broken glass from which rose coils of silty dust, pieces of torn carpet plastered here and there like scraps of desiccated meat.†
p. 113.5desiccated = dried out
Definitions:
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(1)
(desiccate) to remove moisture from something
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, desiccate can mean to "remove the vitality" from something.