desiccate
verb (used with object)
to dry thoroughly; dry up.
desiccates
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present tense formof desiccate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The sequence of a wet season that allows grasses to grow, followed by a dry spell that desiccates them, results in a particularly high fuel load for fires, Brewington said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
But if you make the walls too thin, your jack-o’-lantern’s fangs will become inward-curving skin tabs as the pulp desiccates and deforms.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2022
What remains on the landscape is a body of skin and bones that then slowly desiccates and deflates, eventually preserved for the eons.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
Like a giant hair dryer, the wind desiccates everything in its path.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2018
The rapid evaporation quickly dispels the vapors and the dry heat desiccates the disease creating germs and makes them innocuous.
From Arizona Sketches by J. A. (Joseph Amasa) Munk
