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past tense of desiccate
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desiccated

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adjective

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Recent Examples of desiccated
Verb
The Hiroshima weapon three days earlier had flash-desiccated leaves on trees out to a distance of almost ten miles — the Nagasaki device, up to fifty miles. Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025 Then Pike makes another grim discovery: a desiccated human leg. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 July 2025
Adjective
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 Any cell drifting in the skies is blasted with UV rays and desiccated. Katherine Bourzac, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for desiccated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for desiccated
Verb
  • The number of hopeful Gator fans left in The Swamp had drained precipitously in past weeks.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Some can feel lifted by this, but others might push themselves too far and end up drained.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • All continers must be dried properly before storing.
    Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The Role of Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load Both fresh and dried fruit can be part of a healthy diet.
    Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But reliance on soldiers of fortune undermined the Kremlin’s message of national unity and allowed an overwhelming majority of Russians to stay uninvolved.
    Nina Khrushcheva, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That mission has now been undermined.
    John Eger, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Maeve ends up turning Sam into the police, exhausted, dejected, and utterly defeated.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • They were done at the start, exhausted and weighed down by meaning and history.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Panthers are weakened without starting running back Chuba Hubbard.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Confidence in business conditions and job availability has weakened sharply, raising concerns that the spending power underpinning corporate growth could falter.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Hidden behind a large flowerpot with a single withered flower, the windows are covered over by a grayish-yellow curtain, brittle with lager fumes.
    Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • During Marie’s private lesson with Cipher, Cate and Jordan infiltrate the dean’s house, finding a withered old man in a hyperbaric chamber.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • To test how ant yogurt could be used in cooking, the research and development team at Alchemist then created three dishes, using live, frozen and dehydrated ants.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • If your efforts at home are not working and your skin is still dehydrated, contact a dermatologist for an evaluation.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The most common symptom of breast cancer is a new lump or mass, but other signs and symptoms include swelling of the breast, skin dimpling, breast or nipple pain, nipple discharge aside from breast milk and nipple or breast skin that is red, dry, flaky or thickened, according to ACS.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Check the soil with your finger and water the plant when the surface is dry.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025

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