• Verb and adjective:
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈdɛsɪkeɪt/, /dɪˈsɪkeɪt/
  • (GA) IPA: /ˈdɛsɪkeɪt/
• Noun:
  • (RP, GA) IPA: /ˈdɛsɪkət/

desiccate (desiccates, present participle desiccating; past and past participle desiccated)

1. (transitive) To remove#Verb|remove moisture from; to dry#Verb|dry. [from late 16th c.]

   Synonyms: dehydrate, exiccate, exsiccate, parch

   Antonyms: hydrate, moisten, moisturize, wet

   • 1627, [Francis Bacon], “IX. Century. [Experiment Solitary Touching the Two Kinds of Pneumaticals in Bodies.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: Published after the authors death, by VVilliam Rawley; printed by I[ohn] H[aviland and Augustine Mathewes] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044242069 ↗; Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: Published […] by VVilliam Rawley. Printed by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], 1631, OCLC 1044372886 ↗, paragraph 842, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t8v991c13;view=1up;seq=233 page 215]:

     {...}} As in Bodies deſsiccate, by Heat, or Age; For in them, when the Natiue Spirit goeth forth, and the Moiſture with it, the Aire with time getteth into the Pores.

2. (transitive) To preserve#Verb|preserve by drying. [from late 16th c.]
3. (intransitive, rare) To become dry; to dry up.

• desiccant
• exiccate, exiccation (obsolete)
• exsiccant
• exsiccate

• exsiccation
• exsiccative
• exsiccator

• German: trocknen, dörren
• Spanish: desecar

• German: trocknen, dörren
• Spanish: disecar

desiccate

1. Having had moisture remove#Verb|removed; dehydrated#Adjective|dehydrated, dessicated.

   Synonyms: dried

desiccate (plural desiccates)

1. A substance which has been dessicated, that is, had its moisture remove#Verb|removed.