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
Let a good, thorough-paced proser get hold of one of these stories, and he carefully desiccates them of whatever fancy may be left, till he has reduced them to the proper dryness of fact.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
