Crossword-Solution: DESICCATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Desiccate | v. t. | To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit. |
| Desiccate | v. i. | To become dry. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “DESICCATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| remove most of the water from | 1 answer |
| CALCINE | 3 answers |
| Dry out | 5 answers |
| anhydrate | 7 answers |
| Dehydrate | 8 answers |
| Parch | 10 answers |
| dry up | 18 answers |
| devitalise | 27 answers |
| Refine | 64 answers |
| Drain | 77 answers |
| Dry | 83 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AMEZCE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DESICCATE (5)
The surprising vivacity of many of his own figures,—although he had the courage of his convictions, and laboured, throughout the course of a long life, to desiccate his style,—bears witness to a natural skill in the use of loaded weapons.
One of his friends, wishing to desiccate a Frog, placed it on the top of a stick thrust into the ground, in order to make sure that the Necrophori should not come and carry it off.
Plants desiccate soil to the ultimate depth and lateral extent of their rooting ability, and then some.
Though hot, baking sun and wind can desiccate the few inches of surface soil, withdrawals of moisture from greater depths are made by growing plants transpiring moisture through their leaf surfaces.
Thy freeborn sons, with genius unconfined, Nor sloth can slacken nor a tyrant bind; With self-wrought fame and worth internal blest, No venal star shall brighten on their breast, Nor king-created name nor courtly art Damp the bold thought or desiccate the heart.
Quotes with DESICCATE (3)
Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.
The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being. Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water. Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both,…
Although the villagers rose with the sun to work the fields, attend to the animals, bake their bread, and begin their long list of chores, for me, Leya Truelong, this was a day like no other. Today, Wren River was touched by the fantastic. Desiccate by Bonnie Ferrante
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1974–1988).