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Desiccate Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ate

Desiccate has 7 different meanings across 2 categories:

Verb · Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

A substance which has been dessicated, that is, had its moisture removed.

Verb
1

preserve by removing all water and liquids from

"carry dehydrated food on your camping trip"

2

remove water from

"All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me"

3

lose water or moisture

"In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"

4

To remove moisture from; to dry.

Adjective
1

lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless

"a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"

"a desiccate romance"

"a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"

2

Having had moisture removed; dehydrated, dessicated.

Example Sentences
"carry dehydrated food on your camping trip" verb
"All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me" verb
"In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly" verb
"a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata" adjective
"a desiccate romance" adjective
"a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery" adjective
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Origin

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.

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