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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To dry up or cause to dry up.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To dry; remove moisture from by evaporation or absorption.

Wiktionary

  1. v. to dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. lose water or moisture

Etymologies

  1. Middle English exsiccaten, from Latin exsiccāre, exsiccāt- : ex-, ex- + siccāre, to dry (from siccus, dry). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. dry

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  1. dry
  1. dry out

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  1. exiccate
  1. dry

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  • biocon In addition, exsiccate is an adjective meaning dried, dried up (OED). Mar 12, 2012

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