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Webster 1913 Edition
Exsiccate
Ex′sic-cate
(?; 277)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Exsiccated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exsiccating
.] [L.
exsiccatus
, p. p. of exsiccare
to dry up; ex
out + siccare
to make dry, siccus
dry.] To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up.
Sir T. Browne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Exsiccate
EX'SICCATE
,Verb.
T.
To dry; to exhaust or evaporate moisture.
Definition 2024
exsiccate
exsiccate
English
Verb
exsiccate (third-person singular simple present exsiccates, present participle exsiccating, simple past and past participle exsiccated)
- 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: