Found 2 items, similar to desiccate.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: desiccate desiccate v 1: preserve by removing all water and liquids from; “carry dehydrated food on your camping trip” [syn: dehydrate] 2: remove water from; “All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me” [syn: dehydrate] 3: lose water or moisture; “In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly” [syn: dehydrate, dry up] [ant: hydrate] desiccate adj : lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; “a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata”; “a desiccate romance”; “a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery”-C.J.Rolo [syn: arid, desiccated]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Desiccate 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. [1913 Webster] Bodies desiccated by heat or age. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Desiccate \Des"ic*cate\, v. i. To become dry. [1913 Webster]