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Desicate

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dry upverb(intransitive) To become dry (often of weather); to lose water.
dessicateverbMisspelling of desiccate. [(transitive) To remove moisture from; to dry; (sometimes) to dry to an extreme degree.]
dehydrateverb(transitive) To remove water from; to dry up.

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hydratenoun(slang) To drink water.

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dehydrateverb(transitive) To remove water from; to dry up.
dessicateverbMisspelling of desiccate. [(transitive) To remove moisture from; to dry; (sometimes) to dry to an extreme degree.]
dry upverb(intransitive) To become dry (often of weather); to lose water.
desinencenoun(linguistics) A suffix used as an inflection; an ending; inflectional suffix.
desiccateverb(transitive) To remove moisture from; to dry; (sometimes) to dry to an extreme degree.
desmitisnoun(medicine) inflammation of a ligament.
desorbverb(of a substance) To remove (or be removed) from a surface onto which it was adsorbed or through which it was absorbed
desquamateverb(intransitive) To come off in the form of scales, to scale.
desquamativenounOf, relating to, or attended with, desquamation.
desilvernoun(transitive) To remove the reflective backing from (a mirror).
despoilverb(transitive) To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
desacralizeverb(religion, transitive) To remove the sacredness of.
desaltnoun(transitive) To remove salt from; to desalinate.
desexualizeverb(transitive) To divest of sexual attributes; to render conceptually asexual.
desimonenounA surname from Italian.
desalternounA machine or facility that removes salt, as from crude oil or agricultural runoff.
deschnoun
desiccationnoun(uncountable) The state or process of being desiccated
desiccateddried
destainnoun(transitive) To remove a chemical stain from.

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