exsiccate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈek.sɪ.keɪt/
exsiccate (exsiccates, present participle exsiccating; past and past participle exsiccated)
- (transitive) To dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 147:
- The guinea hen, so nearly exsiccated a few days earlier, dangles limp once again, as wet as if it had been freshly slaughtered.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 147:
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