desiccated
Americanadjective
adjective
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dehydrated and powdered
desiccated coconut
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lacking in spirit or animation
Other Word Forms
- undesiccated adjective
Etymology
Origin of desiccated
Example Sentences
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"Everything is there. I was stuck here," he told AFP in Karachi, near the well-known Bengali market where he peddles desiccated fish and prawns to make ends meet for $7 to $9 per day.
From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026
Plus: Does anyone really like nibbling desiccated gumdrops?
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
He was “working with the new FDA,” he said in a LinkedIn post in November, to remove from the market desiccated thyroid extracts, a product critical to another company led by Tang, American Laboratories Holdings.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025
Prof Rein's research finds that, after ten consecutive days of very dry weather, vegetation becomes so desiccated across wide areas that the likelihood of multiple fires igniting simultaneously rises sharply.
From BBC • Aug. 13, 2025
In the wake of the reapers’ scythes the black land showed again through the stubble, no longer moist and rich but bone-hard, desiccated, and beginning to crack in all directions under the burning sun.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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