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Definition: EXSICCATE |
EXSICCATETransitive verb1. To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. |
Note: Exsiccate \Ex"sic*cate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Exsiccated; present participle verb or noun Exsiccating.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dryness | Desiccate, dehydrate, exsiccate; parch. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: EXSICCATE |
| English words defined with "EXSICCATE": Exiccate, Exsiccated, Exsiccating. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "EXSICCATE": Exsiccant. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "EXSICCATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thaj (blot, desiccate, drain, drink off, dry, dry up, feel cool, sap, sear, torrefy, wipe out, wither), ter (dry out, sap). (various references) | |
Arabic | جفف (dehydrate, desiccate, drain off, dry, mangle, mummify, parch, sear, season, spin). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | суша (air, aridness, bake, drought, dry, earth, fire, land, main, mainland, terra firma, weather), изсушавам (dry off, parch, rub dry, sear, torrefy). (various references) | |
Czech | vysušit (desiccate, drain, drain off, dry up, wither). (various references) | |
French | sécher. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kiszárít (to drain, to scorch, to sere, to wizen). (various references) | |
Italian | essiccare (dry). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | exsiccateay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | exsicar, enxugar (dry), secar (dry). (various references) | |
Romanian | usca (air, desiccate, drain, dry, parch, sap, scorch, sear, season, swelter). (various references) | |
Russian | высушивать (desiccate, dry up, parch, sear), иссыхать. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | isušiti (drain, drain off, dry up). (various references) | |
Spanish | desecar (desiccate, drain, dry up). (various references) | |
Swedish | torka ut (become dry, dry, dry out, dry up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | висушувати (desiccate, parch, shrivel, wither), висихати (desiccate, shrivel, wizen). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "EXSICCATE": exsiccated, exsiccates. (additional references) | |
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"EXSICCATE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exsiccata. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-s-t-x" | |
-2 letters: ascetic, excites. | |
-3 letters: acetic, axites, caseic, exacts, excise, excite, exsect, taxies. | |
-4 letters: axite, cacti, caste, cates, cease, cesta, cesti, cetes, cites, exact, execs, exist, exits, saice, setae, sixte, taces, taxes, taxis, tease, texas. | |
-5 letters: aces, acts, aits, asci, ates, axes, axis, case, cast, cate, cats, ceca, cees, cete, cist, cite, ease, east, eats, etas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-s-t-x" | |
+1 letter: exsiccated, exsiccates. | |
+2 letters: excruciates. | |
+3 letters: expectancies. | |
+5 letters: excommunicates. | |
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