arid, desiccate, desiccated
(adjective) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; “a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata”; “a desiccate romance”; “a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery”-C.J.Rolo
exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up, desiccate
(verb) lose water or moisture; “In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly”
dehydrate, desiccate
(verb) remove water from; “All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me”
dehydrate, desiccate
(verb) preserve by removing all water and liquids from; “carry dehydrated food on your camping trip”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
desiccate (third-person singular simple present desiccates, present participle desiccating, simple past and past participle desiccated)
(transitive) To remove moisture from; to dry. [from late 16th c.]
Synonyms: dehydrate, exiccate (obsolete), exsiccate, parch
Antonyms: hydrate, moisten, moisturize, wet
(transitive) To preserve by drying. [from late 16th c.]
(intransitive, rare) To become dry; to dry up.
desiccate (comparative more desiccate, superlative most desiccate)
Having had moisture removed; dehydrated, dessicated.
Synonym: dried
desiccate (plural desiccates)
A substance which has been dessicated, that is, had its moisture removed.
Source: Wiktionary
Des"ic*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desiccated; p. pr. & vb. n. Desiccating.] Etym: [L. desiccatus, p. p. of desiccare to dry up; de- + siccare to dry, siccus dry. See Sack wine.]
Definition: To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit. Bodies desiccated by heat or age. Bacon.
Des"ic*cate, v. i.
Definition: To become dry.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
