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desiccated
- simple past and past participle of desiccate
Adjective
desiccated (comparative more desiccated, superlative most desiccated)
- dried
1691, John Dunton, editor, The Athenian Mercury, volume II, number 23:The Learned have Diſtinguiſh’d fire into three Species, 1. Light, that is fire in its proper matter, 2. Flame, that is fire is moiſt Air, 3. Cole, that is fire in a burnt Stick or other Deſiccated matter […]
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:Already I seemed to hear the water rippling against the desiccated bones and rattling them together, rolling my skull against Mahomed's, and his against mine, till at last Mahomed's stood straight up upon its vertebræ, and glared at me through its empty eyeholes, and cursed me with its grinning jaws, because I, a dog of a Christian, disturbed the last sleep of a true believer.
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