Desiccate

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  • intransitive verb. To dry out thoroughly.
  • intransitive verb. To preserve (foods) by removing the moisture. synonym: dry.
  • intransitive verb. To make dry, dull, or lifeless.
  • intransitive verb. To become dry; dry out.
  • adjective. Lacking spirit or animation; arid.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Dry; dried.
  • To dry; deprive of moisture; expel moisture from; especially, to bring to a thoroughly dry state for preservation, as various kinds of food.
  • To become dry.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To become dry.
  • transitive verb. To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to dry
  • verb. to preserve by drying
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. lose water or moisture
  • adjective. lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
  • verb. preserve by removing all water and liquids from
  • verb. remove water from
  • Word Usage
    "But maybe don't ask too much further because it's possible that before 'freezer perpetuity', the deceased cats might have been laid out on the hood of cars on front lawn, you know, to kind of desiccate before being burying?"
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    moisten  moisturize  wet  
    cross-reference
    Equivalent
    dull  
    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dry  dry out  keep  preserve  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form