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# desiccate

verb (desiccate, desiccates, desiccated, desiccating)

«desiccate» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To desiccate something is to remove all the water from it so it becomes completely dry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desiccate/#m1)
2. Desiccated (adjective) means completely dried out; desiccated coconut is dried, shredded coconut for baking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desiccate/#m2)

### In the lessons

In cooking, desiccated coconut goes into cakes and biscuits. In science, a desiccator dries chemicals, and little packets of silica gel desiccate new shoes and bags (safety: do not eat them). In nature, deserts and drought desiccate plants and soil.

### Examples

- Sprinkle desiccated coconut on top of the cake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desiccate/#x1)
- The hot wind desiccated the crops. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desiccate/#x2)
- Silica gel packets desiccate the air in a shoe box. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desiccate/#x3)
- The desiccated leaves crumbled in my hand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desiccate/#x4)
- Egyptians desiccated bodies with salt to make mummies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desiccate/#x5)
- Drought desiccates the soil until it cracks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desiccate/#x6)

### Note

Spelling trap: one s, two c's — desiccate. Regular verb. Noun: desiccation. The silica gel packets say «do not eat»: they are not food.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «desiccate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/desiccate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«desiccate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/desiccate.html) on Mova free.