Lexic.us

Definition of Desiccate

1. Adjective. Lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless. "A prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"

2. Verb. Preserve by removing all water and liquids from. "Carry dehydrated food on your camping trip"

3. Verb. Remove water from. "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me"

4. Verb. Lose water or moisture. "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"

Definition of Desiccate

1. v. t. To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit.

2. v. i. To become dry.

Definition of Desiccate

1. Verb. to dry ¹

2. Verb. to preserve by drying ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Desiccate

1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]

Medical Definition of Desiccate

1. To lose or cause to lose moisture. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Desiccate

deshielding deshieldings deshopper deshoppers deshopping deshuffle deshuffled deshuffles deshuffling deshydraemia

desi desialylated desialylation desiccant desiccants desiccate (current term) desiccated desiccated coconut desiccated liver desiccated pituitary

desiccatedly desiccates desiccating desiccation desiccations desiccative desiccator desiccators desiccatory desiderable

Literary usage of Desiccate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus by Paracelsus (1894)
"Pound these two together and imbibe with water of mercury ; desiccate, ... Strain through a cloth and desiccate. This elixir tinges Venus into Sol. ITEM. ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1863)
"We thus obtain the fibrin, which we must wash, desiccate, and weigh. "The blood, thus defibrinated, is then put aside to serve for other operations. ..."

3. Representative Procedures in Quantitative Chemical Analysis by Frank Austin Gooch (1916)
"Add bromine water until it gives its color to the solution (to oxidize ferrous iron), evaporate the solution to dryness, and desiccate at 110 degrees. ..."

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