Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To dry up or cause to dry up.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dry; remove moisture from by evaporation or absorption.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
dry , todesiccate , todehydrate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb lose water or moisture
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English exsiccaten, from Latin exsiccāre, exsiccāt- : ex-, ex- + siccāre, to dry (from siccus, dry).]
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Examples
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And _exsiccate_ to a _Cuticle_, he could not _suspend_ longer in his _Vehicle_, but _precipitated Gradatim, per_
Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various
biocon commented on the word exsiccate
In addition, exsiccate is an adjective meaning dried, dried up (OED).
March 12, 2012