Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To dry up or cause to dry up.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To dry; remove moisture from by evaporation or absorption.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up.
WordNet 3.0
- v. lose water or moisture
Etymologies
- Middle English exsiccaten, from Latin exsiccāre, exsiccāt- : ex-, ex- + siccāre, to dry (from siccus, dry). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And _exsiccate_ to a _Cuticle_, he could not _suspend_ longer in his _Vehicle_, but _precipitated Gradatim, per_”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘exsiccate’.
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phrontistery - e
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Logolepsy
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The Ex-acting Xray
Out of this world via the "X-express".
exorbitant, exuberant, extant, exultant, expectorate, exhilarate, excommunicate, exacting, extenuate, exculpate, extirpate, expostulate and 110 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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word set 12
plasmasphere, cockatrice, delimitable, precipitancy, trellising, thermochromism, cadenza, tentaculiferous, fluctiferous, circumambient, loblolly, trailing edge and 142 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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Miscellany, pt. e
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Inkhornerie
Words that didn't make the cut.
yblent, endsay, yeartide, exsiccate, illecebrous, suppeditate, cohibit, eximious, temulent, adminiculation, turbinated, perflation and 4 more...
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alate, anserine, fetor, adipose, ratiocination, frangible, pergola, analeptic, carom, dudeen, testaceous, sudorific and 23 more...
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Dried or Dried Up
Words meaning dried or dried up
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To Dry or Dry Up
Words meaning to dry or dry up
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biocon In addition, exsiccate is an adjective meaning dried, dried up (OED). Mar 12, 2012