DESICCATION Synonyms: 116 Similar and Opposite Words

desiccate

verb

ˈde-si-ˌkāt

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 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 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 desiccate

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Treating speech like violence undermines a free society.

— Editorial Board, Washington Post, 1 June 2026
Spain’s success over the past five years has undermined many long-standing political-economic truisms.

— Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026