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as in drained
to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitality
that historian's dryasdust prose desiccates what is actually an exciting period in European history
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as in dried
to make dry
add a cup of desiccated coconut to the mix
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Recent Examples of desiccated
Phil Plait, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
Naysayers ignored that talent in deference to the desiccated inanity of Marvel’s war-toy movies.
—Armond White, National Review, 7 Aug. 2024
Her brain, however, was still in the skull, desiccated and shifted to the right.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2024
Of all the insidious threats faced by wildland firefighters — extreme heat, desiccated forests, unpredictable fire behavior and a nearly year-round fire season — what might be the most fearsome?
Humans.
—Calmatters, Orange County Register, 1 Aug. 2024
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For example, a planet a little bit warmer than Earth—perhaps orbiting a hotter star or closer to a cooler star—could wind up with a runaway greenhouse effect that boils its oceans and eventually heats its desiccated surface to the melting point of lead.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
Naysayers ignored that talent in deference to the desiccated inanity of Marvel’s war-toy movies.
—Armond White, National Review, 7 Aug. 2024
Her brain, however, was still in the skull, desiccated and shifted to the right.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2024
Of all the insidious threats faced by wildland firefighters — extreme heat, desiccated forests, unpredictable fire behavior and a nearly year-round fire season — what might be the most fearsome?
Humans.
—Calmatters, Orange County Register, 1 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for desiccated
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Ironically enough, in passing over Alabama the committee inadvertently undermined the spending power of one of college football’s most storied programs.Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 8 Dec. 2024
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Had the committee excluded the Mustangs following their loss to Clemson in the ACC championship — on a walk-off field goal, no less — the decision would have undermined the credibility of conference title games.Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
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In that way, McDonald’s became a kind of scapegoat for people who were exhausted of stretching their budgets to afford food and suspecting (not without reason) that corporate greed was at least partly to blame.Allison Morrow, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
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Because the Syrian army is exhausted and no longer has the courage to fight alone.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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With Assad gone and Iran weakened, new commercial routes, reconstruction opportunities, and trade corridors beckon.Guney Yildiz, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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His party holds a commanding majority in El Salvador's and with his opponents politically weakened, there's little standing in the way of his mining agenda.Jesus Mesa, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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The gel provides immediate soothing relief from dry, itchy skin as well as 24-hour skin hydration.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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That minimal percentage is caused by extremely dry air that circulates throughout the cabin at 30,000 feet.Sara Button, AFAR Media, 19 Dec. 2024
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Playwright-screenwriter Alice Birch has composed a superheated adaptation that’s anything but sere.Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
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Seidensticker pointed out Kawabata’s ties to Japanese poetry: This was prose of a sere, haiku-like delicacy and suggestiveness, with much implied and little specified.Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
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“Desiccated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desiccated. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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