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Desiccate
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- 1 Having had moisture removed; dehydrated, desiccated.
"It [the byssus fungus] is not only capable of propagation by the most minute fragments, however rudely detached, but it also retains the principle of revivification for years together when in a desiccate state."
- 1 lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless wordnet
- 1 A substance which has been desiccated, that is, had its moisture removed.
"The Cy dyes are shipped as a desiccate in sealed packs."
- 1 To remove moisture from; to dry; (sometimes) to dry to an extreme degree. transitive
"[…] As in Bodies deſsiccate, by Heat, or Age; For in them, when the Natiue Spirit goeth forth, and the Moiſture with it, the Aire with time getteth into the Pores."
- 2 lose water or moisture wordnet
- 3 To preserve by drying. transitive
"The nuts are then passed into a double disc machine, and this travelling at a speed of 3,000 revolutions per minute desiccates the coconut."
- 4 remove water from wordnet
- 5 To become dry; to dry up. intransitive, rare
"Lately, in France, they stopped the boiling process in the preparation of brown sugar a few degrees before the point of crystallization, which is 243°, or 244°; and then spreading their syrup over their copper pans, placed round a stove or bake house, leave the syrup to desiccate slowly, and to crystallize in what they call the natural way; […]"
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- 6 preserve by removing all water and liquids from wordnet
Etymology
From Latin dēsiccō (“to dry completely, dry up”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from dē- (“completely, to exhaustion”, a prefix) + siccō (“to dry; to drain, exhaust”), from siccus (“dry”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, de- + siccate.
From Latin dēsiccātus (“dried up”), the perfect passive participle of dēsiccō: see above. Equivalent to Latin dēsiccō + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
From the substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to Latin dēsiccō + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
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