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Definition of Exsiccate
1. Verb. Lose water or moisture. "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"
Generic synonyms: Dry, Dry Out
Derivative terms: Dehydration, Dehydration, Dehydration, Desiccant, Desiccation
Antonyms: Hydrate
Definition of Exsiccate
1. v. t. To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up.
Definition of Exsiccate
1. Verb. to dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exsiccate
1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]
Medical Definition of Exsiccate
1. To lose or cause to lose moisture. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exsiccate
Literary usage of Exsiccate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1895)
"Rows or belts of it intercept sewage or exsiccate stagnant drainage, and will
also arrest bush-fires. The roots can readily be carried by tourists ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Languish, weaken, faint, sink, fail» decline, grow weak, be dispirited. Drop, n.
I. Globule. Dry» -'. a. Desiccate, exsiccate, free from moisture, make dry. ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"See SOUR (urine), PROHIBITION. dry, vt exsiccate (tech.; rare), desiccate (tech.),
parch, dehydrate (tech.), evaporate (rare); spec, bucean, drain, blot, ..."
4. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"... of departure (expand, extend} as well as of the carrying out to the end, of
finishing, may be the standard (сотр. exsiccate and effect, elaborate}. ..."
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