The Collaborative International Dictionary
Desiccate \Des"ic*cate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desiccated; p. pr. & vb. n. Desiccating.] [L. desiccatus, p. p. of desiccare to dry up; de- + siccare to dry, siccus dry. See Sack wine.] To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit.
Bodies desiccated by heat or age.
--Bacon.
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vb. (present participle of desiccate English)
Usage examples of "desiccating".
On the open steppes, a few bent and gnarled pine and birch trees huddled along watercourses, their roots seeking the moisture given up to the desiccating winds.
The cool desert air seemed to carry in it the residue of a sandstorm, a desiccating haze that parched the throat.
The two days out of the desiccating storm had done much to revive both of them.
Even so, near the great glacier, the days could get quite warm in the bright summer sun -- warm enough, with the desiccating wind, to dry some of the leaner meat, and make it reasonable to carry back.
She saw them with the third or ajna eye, the Eye of Shiva which gives inward discernment, but which when turned outward blasts with desiccating heat.
The desiccating wind that perpetually scoured the crest of the escarpment was blissfully subdued, and there were even a few dark clouds marring the cerulean blue of the sky.
Even in this desiccating heat, Dengar could smell the sickly aftermath of death.
The air inside the hiding place was as hot and desiccating as the interior of one of the ancient burial mounds that studded the farther reaches of the Dune Sea, where Tatooine's double suns turned corpses into withered leather.
Though it was still early in the summer, the strong winds off the massive glacier to the north were already desiccating the steppes in a wide band south of the ice.