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What (who) is Desiccate - definition
STATE OF EXTREME DRYNESS, OR THE PROCESS OF EXTREME DRYING
Dessication; Desiccate; Dessiccation; Desication; Dessicate; Dessiccate; Desicate; Desiccating; Desiccated
![[[Callistemon]] hybrid desiccated by heat and dryness (Sydney)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Callistemon desiccated by drought.jpg?width=200 "[[Callistemon]] hybrid desiccated by heat and dryness (Sydney)")
![Desiccation of the L4-L5 and L5-S1 spinal discs are evident on color [[MRI]] as loss of blue color visible on these levels.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lumbar MRI T1FSE T2frFSE STIR 07.jpg?width=200 "Desiccation of the L4-L5 and L5-S1 spinal discs are evident on color [[MRI]] as loss of blue color visible on these levels.")
Desiccate
·vi To become dry.
II. Desiccate ·vt To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit.
desiccate
['d?s?ke?t]
¦ verb remove the moisture from.
Derivatives
desiccator noun
desiccation noun
desiccative adjective
Origin
C16 (earlier (ME) as desiccation): from L. desiccat-, desiccare 'make thoroughly dry'.
desiccate
v. a.
Dry, exsiccate, dry up, make dry.
Wikipedia
Desiccation
Desiccation (from Latin de- 'thoroughly', and siccare 'to dry') is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying. A desiccant is a hygroscopic (attracts and holds water) substance that induces or sustains such a state in its local vicinity in a moderately sealed container.
Examples of use of Desiccate
1. "The stuff will desiccate and you can clean it up.
2. Scenarios like these –– and the recognition that even less–affected countries such as the United States will experience significant regional shifts in growing seasons, forcing new and sometimes disruptive changes in crop choices –– are providing the impetus for a new "green revolution." It is aimed not simply at boosting production, as the first revolution did with fertilizers, but at creating crops that can handle the heat, suck up the salt, not desiccate in a drought and even grow swimmingly while submerged.