exsiccate

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exsicco, exsiccatus, from ex- + siccus (“dry”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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  1. (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.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) exsiccāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of exsiccō
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