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Exsiccated

Exsiccate \Ex"sic*cate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exsiccated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exsiccating.] [L. exsiccatus, p. p. of exsiccare to dry up; ex out + siccare to make dry, siccus dry.] To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up.
--Sir T. Browne.

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exsiccated

vb. (en-past of: exsiccate)

Usage examples of "exsiccated".

The birds and the phagors were white, the terrain white or brown and exsiccated black, the sky beyond livid green.