Desiccate

Definitions: Desiccate

Desiccate

Adjective

1. Lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata";l "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo.

Verb

1. Lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly".

Domain	Definitions
Geological	To dry out, usually by evaporation of water. (references)
Mining	To dry; to remove moisture; to preserve by drying. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Desiccate

Synonyms: arid (adj), desiccated (adj), dehydrate (v), dry up (v). (additional references)

Antonym: hydrate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dryness	Desiccate, dehydrate, exsiccate; parch.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Desiccate

English words defined with "desiccate": arid ♦ desiccated, Desiccating. (references)

Etymologies containing "desiccate": Desiccant. (references)

"Desiccate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Desiccate" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	2	245,945

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "desiccate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		thaj (blot, drain, drink off, dry, dry up, exsiccate, feel cool, sap, sear, torrefy, wipe out, wither), thahem (become dry, become numb, dry, feel cold, get dry, pine). (various references)

Arabic		‏حفظ (commit to memory, conservation, conserve, din into, keep, keeping, maintenance, memorize, preservation, protect, protection, reservation, reserve, retain, save, set aside, store, treasure), ‏تجفف (drying up), ‏سلبه القدرة, ‏جفف (dehydrate, drain off, dry, exsiccate, mangle, mummify, parch, sear, season, spin). (various references)

Chinese		脱水 (Dehydrate, dehydrated, Desiccated, Desiccating). (various references)

Czech		vysušit (drain, drain off, dry up, exsiccate, wither). (various references)

French		dessécher, se dessécher, sécher. (various references)

German		trocknen (bake, cure, dehumidify, dehydrate, desiccation, dry, drying, parch, seasoning, stove, to dehumidify, to dry, towel down). (various references)

Greek		ξεραίνω (blight, dry, parch), αφυδατώνω σύκα. (various references)

Hebrew		ליבש (dehydrate, drain, dry, wither). (various references)

Hungarian		kiszárít (drain, drain off, exsiccate, to coarsen, to desiccate, to drain, to scorch, to sear, to sere, to shrivel, to wizen). (various references)

Italian		essiccare (bake, become dray, dehydrate, drain, dry, dry up, exsiccate, parch, sap, stove). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		干す (to air, to desiccate, to drain off, to drink up, to dry). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほす (to air, to desiccate, to drain, to drink up, to dry), かわかす (to desiccate, to dry). (various references)

Korean		건조시키십시�". (various references)

Pig Latin		esiccateday

Portuguese		dessecar, secar (blast, blight, drainage, dry, exsiccate, forked, kirghiz, peter out, rub down, scorch, sear, shrivel, Ted, wipe, wither), enxugar (delete, dry, exsiccation, rinse, rub down, wipe, wipe off, wiping). (various references)

Romanian		deshidrata (dehydrate), usca (air, drain, dry, exsiccate, parch, sap, scorch, sear, season, swelter). (various references)

Russian		высушивать (dry up, exsiccate, parch, sear), высыхать (dry, parch up, run dry). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		osušiti (dry, dry off, shrivel). (various references)

Spanish		desecar (drain, dry up, exsiccate, to dry out, unwater) to), terminar de secar. (various references)

Swedish		uttorka. (various references)

Turkish		kurutmak (air, bake, corn, cure, dehydrate, deplete, drain, dry, dry up, exhaust, parch, scorch, sear, season, shrivel, torrefy, weather, wither), kurumak (dry, dry up, get dry, parch, sear, season). (various references)

Ukranian		висушувати (exsiccate, parch, shrivel, wither), висихати (exsiccate, shrivel, wizen). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "desiccate": desiccated, desiccates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Desiccate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desccate, desiccater, desicrate, dessiccat, dessiccate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-i-s-t"
	-2 letters: accedes, ascetic, deceits, ideates.
	-3 letters: accede, acetic, cadets, caseic, ceased, deceit, deices, dicast, edicts, ideate, seated, sedate, sicced, teased.
	-4 letters: acids, acted, adits, aedes, aides, asdic, aside, cacti, cades, cadet, cadis, caids, cased, caste, cates, cease, cedes, cedis, cesta, cesti, cetes, cited, cites, daces, dates, deets, deice, deist, dices, dicta, diets, ditas, dites.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-i-s-t"
	+1 letter: desiccated, desiccates, exsiccated.
	+2 letters: desiccative, reaccredits.
	+3 letters: bactericides, decorticates, incandescent.
	+4 letters: incandescents.
	+5 letters: accidentalness, conceptualised, deconsecrating, deconsecration, discountenance, incandescently, occidentalizes.
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