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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Future decisions embracing those limits could further undermine the landmark voting law, long considered the crown jewel of the civil rights movement, and hamper the ability of voting rights groups and individual voters to file lawsuits alleging violations of the measure.

— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 18 May 2026
Sandweg said one of the director's most underappreciated responsibilities is managing that internal fault line, ensuring that ERO's highly visible arrest operations do not undermine HSI's ability to cultivate the confidential informants and foreign partnerships on which its work depends.

— Philip Wang, Time, 18 May 2026