dessicate

• “Did you know that if you leave them to dessicate for 3 days, then place inside a slingshot, they can take out a bird at 30 paces?”

  Ten Things Tuesday: Bread of Affliction « The Life and Times of Organic Mama

• “It's hard to swallow, everything from the pile of slaughtered cows on the cover, to the juices secreted within its pages, to the way she makes words see like "eyes" and "tongues that flop out pinking as they dessicate...”

  Strange Bedfellows

• “The object of this process is to arrest fermentation and slowly dessicate the leaf in such a way so as to extract the moisture without scorching the tea and at the same time, preserving its quality and other characters to the optimum level.”

  Darjeeling Tea Processing - The process of Darjeeling Tea manufacture

• “It helped to dessicate the carcase when a possum died in an inaccessible air shaft.”

  In which something goes bad.

• “Fair enough ... but then why doesn't it fry (or at least dessicate) any humans nearby?”

  Review of Batman Begins

• “As soon as the artworks were exposed to sunlight and the dry air, they began to dessicate and crack.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Goddess and the Bull

• “To dessicate the tongue specifically, they rubbed it with salt, honey, and sage.”

  Simon & Schuster: Knotted Tongues

• “I do not think there was a single achievement of mine that a lawyer did not try to dessicate.”

  Sharpe's Devil

• “The people were sick of the dry, lifeless, formal rules that were offered to them; the priesthood have had this truth hammered into them, and they are quickening their formulæ with life to fit the life of the people, not striving to dessicate the people's life to fit their formulæ.”

  Notes on Islam

• “A new heat treatment system turns bug-infested buildings into temporary ovens, hot enough to dessicate the pests but leaving the property unharmed”

  New Scientist - Online News

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