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Definition of desiccate in English: desiccateverb ˈdɛsɪkeɪtˈdɛsəˌkeɪt [with object]1usually as adjective desiccatedRemove the moisture from (something), typically in order to preserve it. Example sentencesExamples - Referred to as ‘poison-winds,’ these northers could quickly desiccate crops and even kill small birds.
- Flipping through this magazine, it's hard to believe there once was a day when athletes' kitchens were stocked with just eggs and desiccated liver.
- If, instead of injecting material from an infected rabbit to an uninfected rabbit directly, they desiccated the material first and waited a period of days, the virulence of the disease declined rapidly.
- Hydrated and desiccated leaves were prepared using conventional and freeze-substitution techniques, respectively.
- The taut skin of these desiccated animals feels smooth under the hand and hard, like water-polished stone.
- The time of exposure to N 2 gas was limited because of concerns of desiccating the surrounding tissues.
- The absence of the vaporization effect is complemented by the fact that APC desiccates the tissue, thus preventing hazardous perforations.
- Larger cherry angiomas may be easier to treat by shaving them first and then electrocoagulating or desiccating the base.
- When the tide is low, terrestrial conditions can heat and desiccate organisms beyond their tolerances.
- So every summer, as the sun dries and desiccates the white-hot plains of India, a stream of pilgrims leave their farms and villages, pack their belongings into bound-up cloths, and plod their way up to Hardwar, where they bathe in the river.
- Each individual replicate was desiccated separately in its own sterile jar containing a single plastic float above the saturated salt solution.
- This drying technique involves the use of an absorbent which desiccates the rose by transferring the moisture from the petals to another medium.
- These events may need to occur within a fixed time period under the high temperature and low moisture conditions of the desert since high temperatures and low moisture will eventually desiccate detached stem segments.
- Generally, these eggs were almost hollow, and the remaining contents were desiccated.
- Cultures were desiccated and held at 5% relative humidity for 2 weeks as previously described.
- A portion of each shoot was desiccated and preserved in silica crystals.
- You have trays of dried chillies, raisins, desiccated coconut, crumbling curry leaves and chewy mango bar.
- There are 2.5 billion mummified, skinned, pressed, pinned, stained, frozen, pickled, skeletal-bleached, and desiccated dead specimens of species worldwide.
- It is important to uproot and desiccate these weeds thoroughly, because burying them in the loose dry soil is not very effective (unless they are buried quite deeply).
- Terrestrial amphibians face a challenge analogous to that of marine intertidal animals, in that they are highly permeable animals in a potentially desiccating environment.
Synonyms dried, dried up, dry, dehydrated, powdered 2as adjective desiccatedLacking interest, passion, or energy. a desiccated history of ideas Example sentencesExamples - Tax cuts are about far more than number crunching and desiccated calculations.
- They offer very similar versions of desiccated managerialism: limited vision with qualified aspirations.
- His disenchantment is wan, taking the form of desiccated sentiment, not grotesquerie.
- ‘The siren call of this beach,’ he writes, ‘has little to do with facts or common sense or the desiccated footnotes of academics.’
- Not so many years ago, I believed that when love was at stake, dignity was a failure of the heart - the booby prize for the old, whose imaginations rattled in the wind, desiccated of all passion.
- Despite all the gadgets to lighten his work, he leaves his office with a dull and desiccated mind.
- In place of passionate political arguments we have a desiccated debate on the euro polarised between technocratic proponents and emotional opponents.
- What a mountain of desiccated art: unlovely, unsexy, and ultimately claustrophobic.
- If there is to be a scientific Prometheus for our day, he must bring the fire of meaning into our various theoretical languages - languages that, in their current desiccated state, are like dry tinder eager for the blaze.
- Once again, is not the question of whether economic theory governs all human action, or only a more narrowly delimited class of rational action, exactly the sort of desiccated abstraction that repels many potential readers?
- Doesn't this build respect for others, not in the desiccated sense of school room lectures about morality, but in reality?
- They dug up some new material, but he felt it was a desiccated way of approaching the subject.
- I note that ‘liberal’ implies freedom, and this desiccated sanctimony is no fun at all.
- Far from encouraging them to enjoy great literature, to respond with passion and enthusiasm to the ideas of playwrights or poets, they will have to be coached instead in the merits of desiccated jargon and checklist thinking.
- But in the years before this, the sands of truth and error were shifting, particularly in the embattled city of Paris, where the 84-year-old French master has set his uncompromisingly austere and desiccated new film.
Synonyms dull, boring, lacking in vitality, spiritless, lifeless, soulless, wooden, dry, desiccated, flat, uninspired, unimpassioned, insipid, lacklustre, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, vapid
Derivatives noun dɛsɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)nˌdɛsəˈkeɪʃən mass nounThe removal of moisture from something. long periods of drought have led to the desiccation of farming land Example sentencesExamples - stems were stored in plastic bags to prevent desiccation
- Unfortunately for them the dry warm conditions in modern houses tend to cause desiccation and death.
- A sprinkle of water helps protect the roots from desiccation.
- This early accumulation of sucrose would suggest that the root system is prepared for dehydration very rapidly before severe desiccation is evident.
adjective ˈdɛsɪkətɪvˈdɛsəˌkeɪdɪv If it is the slightest bit ‘green’ it has a dreadful desiccative effect on the inside of your mouth. Example sentencesExamples - This once-promising art district succumbs to vigorous development and its concomitant desiccative effect.
- The destruction of the vegetative cover exposes the soil to the desiccative effects of hot, dry wind, resulting in dust storms, the formation of sand dunes, and other forms of severe wind erosion.
- These proteins are expressed in plants during times of desiccative stress, and are thought to bind water and protect the cellular membrane from drying.
- Spatially complex microhabitats tend to reduce desiccative water loss by cutting down the amount of moving air the animal is exposed to.
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin desiccat- 'made thoroughly dry', from the verb desiccare. Definition of desiccate in US English: desiccateverbˈdɛsəˌkeɪtˈdesəˌkāt [with object]1usually as adjective desiccatedRemove the moisture from (something, especially food), typically in order to preserve it. Example sentencesExamples - Cultures were desiccated and held at 5% relative humidity for 2 weeks as previously described.
- So every summer, as the sun dries and desiccates the white-hot plains of India, a stream of pilgrims leave their farms and villages, pack their belongings into bound-up cloths, and plod their way up to Hardwar, where they bathe in the river.
- Hydrated and desiccated leaves were prepared using conventional and freeze-substitution techniques, respectively.
- Generally, these eggs were almost hollow, and the remaining contents were desiccated.
- Referred to as ‘poison-winds,’ these northers could quickly desiccate crops and even kill small birds.
- The absence of the vaporization effect is complemented by the fact that APC desiccates the tissue, thus preventing hazardous perforations.
- The time of exposure to N 2 gas was limited because of concerns of desiccating the surrounding tissues.
- Larger cherry angiomas may be easier to treat by shaving them first and then electrocoagulating or desiccating the base.
- Terrestrial amphibians face a challenge analogous to that of marine intertidal animals, in that they are highly permeable animals in a potentially desiccating environment.
- A portion of each shoot was desiccated and preserved in silica crystals.
- There are 2.5 billion mummified, skinned, pressed, pinned, stained, frozen, pickled, skeletal-bleached, and desiccated dead specimens of species worldwide.
- Flipping through this magazine, it's hard to believe there once was a day when athletes' kitchens were stocked with just eggs and desiccated liver.
- It is important to uproot and desiccate these weeds thoroughly, because burying them in the loose dry soil is not very effective (unless they are buried quite deeply).
- Each individual replicate was desiccated separately in its own sterile jar containing a single plastic float above the saturated salt solution.
- This drying technique involves the use of an absorbent which desiccates the rose by transferring the moisture from the petals to another medium.
- If, instead of injecting material from an infected rabbit to an uninfected rabbit directly, they desiccated the material first and waited a period of days, the virulence of the disease declined rapidly.
- When the tide is low, terrestrial conditions can heat and desiccate organisms beyond their tolerances.
- You have trays of dried chillies, raisins, desiccated coconut, crumbling curry leaves and chewy mango bar.
- These events may need to occur within a fixed time period under the high temperature and low moisture conditions of the desert since high temperatures and low moisture will eventually desiccate detached stem segments.
- The taut skin of these desiccated animals feels smooth under the hand and hard, like water-polished stone.
Synonyms dried, dried up, dry, dehydrated, powdered 2as adjective desiccatedLacking interest, passion, or energy. a desiccated history of ideas Example sentencesExamples - They dug up some new material, but he felt it was a desiccated way of approaching the subject.
- Far from encouraging them to enjoy great literature, to respond with passion and enthusiasm to the ideas of playwrights or poets, they will have to be coached instead in the merits of desiccated jargon and checklist thinking.
- Despite all the gadgets to lighten his work, he leaves his office with a dull and desiccated mind.
- Once again, is not the question of whether economic theory governs all human action, or only a more narrowly delimited class of rational action, exactly the sort of desiccated abstraction that repels many potential readers?
- What a mountain of desiccated art: unlovely, unsexy, and ultimately claustrophobic.
- If there is to be a scientific Prometheus for our day, he must bring the fire of meaning into our various theoretical languages - languages that, in their current desiccated state, are like dry tinder eager for the blaze.
- Tax cuts are about far more than number crunching and desiccated calculations.
- But in the years before this, the sands of truth and error were shifting, particularly in the embattled city of Paris, where the 84-year-old French master has set his uncompromisingly austere and desiccated new film.
- ‘The siren call of this beach,’ he writes, ‘has little to do with facts or common sense or the desiccated footnotes of academics.’
- I note that ‘liberal’ implies freedom, and this desiccated sanctimony is no fun at all.
- They offer very similar versions of desiccated managerialism: limited vision with qualified aspirations.
- Doesn't this build respect for others, not in the desiccated sense of school room lectures about morality, but in reality?
- In place of passionate political arguments we have a desiccated debate on the euro polarised between technocratic proponents and emotional opponents.
- Not so many years ago, I believed that when love was at stake, dignity was a failure of the heart - the booby prize for the old, whose imaginations rattled in the wind, desiccated of all passion.
- His disenchantment is wan, taking the form of desiccated sentiment, not grotesquerie.
Synonyms dull, boring, lacking in vitality, spiritless, lifeless, soulless, wooden, dry, desiccated, flat, uninspired, unimpassioned, insipid, lacklustre, colourless, anaemic, bloodless, vapid
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin desiccat- ‘made thoroughly dry’, from the verb desiccare. |