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as in to undermine
to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitality
that historian's dryasdust prose desiccates what is actually an exciting period in European history
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as in to dry
to make dry
add a cup of desiccated coconut to the mix
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Recent Examples of desiccate
Dried or desiccated coconut flakes can be replaced with fresh coconut meat, or omit.
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The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
Try to get a look below the surface—if anything is broken, damaged, rotten, or desiccated, a simple trim could help.
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Ashley Chalmers,
The Spruce,
11 Feb. 2026
Sereno proposes that the creatures’ carcasses were first desiccated in a drought before suddenly being engulfed by sediment—likely brought on by a flood.
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Andrea Tamayo,
Scientific American,
23 Oct. 2025
The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
Try to get a look below the surface—if anything is broken, damaged, rotten, or desiccated, a simple trim could help.
—
Ashley Chalmers,
The Spruce,
11 Feb. 2026
Sereno proposes that the creatures’ carcasses were first desiccated in a drought before suddenly being engulfed by sediment—likely brought on by a flood.
—
Andrea Tamayo,
Scientific American,
23 Oct. 2025
The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.
—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for desiccate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for desiccate
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Kirk had disappeared from their feeds, and Erika Kirk had gone viral for the wrong reasons—taking the stage at her husband’s memorial service amid pyrotechnics and attempting her own campus tour, undermining her image as a Christian trad wife whose priorities were her family and her home.
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Over his 18-year tenure at the Fed, Greenspan embodied the omnipotent technocrat — a legacy critics say was fatally undermined by his failure to spot the 2008 housing bubble.
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Either way, Aestura’s Atobarrier 365 Ceramide Cream Mist is an easy way to give quick hydration to dry, stressed skin, thanks to an ultrafine spray packed with ceramides.
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On its extensive resume are tasks like soothing angry, overheated skin; combatting signs of photoaging courtesy of vitamin C; and preventing moisture loss by way of squalane (an emollient that permeates skin with hydration after salty water or unexpected beach breezes dry it out).
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Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s consumer spending slowdown persisted in June, with growth during one of the country’s largest online shopping festivals weakening sharply from a year earlier.
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All three of those protagonists have been weakened in their roles by what has gone on.
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The hotel’s wellness center offers Ayurvedic herbal scrubs, Reiki, hydrotherapy, lymphatic draining massages, colonics and acupuncture.
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Transfer the bacon to a plate lined with paper towels to drain.
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As pests crawl through it, its jagged edges scrape their exoskeletons, dehydrating and killing them.
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Store in the fridge, dry, freeze, dehydrate, or keep in water to extend freshness.
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The first film follows a group of French high-school students who travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius.
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Johansson plays her with a tough edge to match her Queens accent, but Hester is clearly petrified by this perfect storm of ugly events.
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Her blood loss was reportedly so severe that the hospital exhausted its supply of her blood type during treatment.
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Jones countered with more than $25 million from his own family fortune, fueling a contest that left both candidates bruised and voters exhausted.
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The suspension has been reworked by completely altering its geometry, mounting points, and damping.
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The air carries the scent of earth after rain — damp ancient stone, cellar walls, perhaps a trace of smoke.
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“Desiccate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desiccate. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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