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Definition: Desiccated |
DesiccatedAdjective1. Thoroughly dried out; "old boxes of desiccated Cuban cigars"; "dried-out boards beginning to split". 2. Preserved by removing natural moisture; "dried beef"; "dried fruit"; "dehydrated eggs"; "shredded and desiccated coconut meat". 3. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "desiccated" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references) |
Synonyms: DesiccatedSynonyms: arid (adj), dehydrated (adj), desiccate (adj), dried (adj), dried-out (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Desiccated |
| English words defined with "desiccated": arid ♦ dehydrated, desiccate, dried, dried-out ♦ fish meal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "desiccated": calc sinter, calcareous tufa, calcsinter ♦ Platitude ♦ ships' biscuits. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Desiccated" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.67% of the time. "Desiccated" is used about 60 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.67% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 1.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 1.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 60 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "desiccated": desiccated milk. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
desiccated liver | 21 |
desiccated coconut | 13 |
capsule desiccated liver | 4 |
desiccated thyroid | 4 |
armour desiccated thyroid | 4 |
desiccated | 3 |
armour desiccated hormone thyroid | 2 |
coconut desiccated importer | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "desiccated"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مجفف (dehydrated, dehydrating, desiccative, dried, dryer, drying, exsiccated), جاف (arid, becoming dry, boorish, brittle, churlish, crude, curt, dehydrated, dried, dry, dryish, gross, harsh, objectionable, rough, surly, unceremonious, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, wild). (various references) | |
Chinese | 脱水 (Dehydrate, dehydrated, Desiccate, Desiccating). (various references) | |
Czech | suchoparný, suchý (arid, bald, bare, dead, droughty, dry, hacking, matter of fact, pedestrian, sear, sere, torrid, wry), sušený. (various references) | |
Danish | tørret substrat (desiccated medium). (various references) | |
French | milieu de culture déshydraté (desiccated medium). (various references) | |
German | dörrte. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מיובש (dehydrated, dried). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tejpor (desiccated milk, dried milk), levespor (dehydrated stock, desiccated soup). (various references) | |
Korean | 건조시키". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | esiccatedday.(various references) | |
Russian | сухое молоко (desiccated milk), сушеные фрукты (desiccated fruit). (various references) | |
Swedish | torrmjölk (desiccated milk). (various references) | |
Turkish | kurutulmuş (dehydrated, dried, seared, seasoned). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Desiccated" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decicated, delicated, desccate, desicated, desiccater, desiccted, dessicated, dessiccat, dessiccate, dessiccated, deticated, disiccated, dissicated. (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-d-e-e-i-s-t" | |
-1 letter: dedicates, desiccate. | |
-2 letters: caddices, dedicate, steadied. | |
-3 letters: acceded, accedes, addicts, ascetic, caddice, caddies, deadest, decades, deceits, decides, didacts, ideated, ideates, sedated, steaded, teddies. | |
-4 letters: accede, acetic, addict, caddie, caddis, cadets, caseic, ceased, decade, deceit, decide, deiced, deices, dicast, didact, dieted, disced, eddies, edicts, edited, ideate, seated, sedate, sicced, teased. | |
-5 letters: acids, acted, adits, aedes, aided. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-d-e-e-i-s-t" | |
+5 letters: discountenanced. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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