Desiccate

//ˈdɛsɪkeɪt// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A substance which has been desiccated, that is, had its moisture removed.

    "The Cy dyes are shipped as a desiccate in sealed packs."

Verb
  1. 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. 2
    lose water or moisture wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    remove water from wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    preserve by removing all water and liquids from wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

From Latin dēsiccātus (“dried up”), the perfect passive participle of dēsiccō: see above. Equivalent to Latin dēsiccō + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Etymology 3

From the substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to Latin dēsiccō + -ate (noun-forming suffix).

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