desiccate

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɛsɪkeɪt/
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• Received-Pronunciation, archaic: /dɪˈsɪkeɪt/
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• General-American: /ˈdɛsɪkeɪt/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɛsɪkət/
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From Latin dēsiccātus (“dried up”), the perfect passive participle of dēsiccō: see above. Equivalent to Latin dēsiccō + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

From the substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to Latin dēsiccō + -ate (noun-forming suffix).

From Latin dēsiccō (“to dry completely, dry up”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from dē- (“completely, to exhaustion”, a prefix) + siccō (“to dry; to drain, exhaust”), from siccus (“dry”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, de- + siccate.

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Turkish: kuru — having had moisture removed — see also dehydrated, desiccated
• Turkish: nemsiz — having had moisture removed — see also dehydrated, desiccated
• Bulgarian: изсушавам (izsušavam) — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Catalan: dessecar — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Dutch: drogen — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Dutch: dehydreren — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Dutch: deshydrateren — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Dutch: ontwateren — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Dutch: uitdrogen — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Dutch: verdrogen — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Finnish: kuivata — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• German: trocknen — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• German: dörren — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Irish: triomaigh — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Māori: whakatārehe — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Māori: tauraki — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Norwegian: tørke — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Portuguese: dessecar — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Quechua: ch'akichiy — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Romanian: deshidrata — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Russian: высушивать (vysušivatʹ) — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Russian: иссушать (issušatʹ) — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Spanish: desecar — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Turkish: kurumak — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Ukrainian: висушувати (vysušuvaty) — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Uyghur: قۇرۇتماق (qurutmaq) — to remove moisture from — see also dry
• Bulgarian: суша (suša) — to preserve by drying
• Catalan: dessecar — to preserve by drying
• Dutch: drogen — to preserve by drying
• Finnish: kuivata — to preserve by drying
• German: trocknen — to preserve by drying
• German: dörren — to preserve by drying
• Romanian: deshidrata — to preserve by drying
• Russian: засушивать (zasušivatʹ) — to preserve by drying
• Russian: засушить (zasušitʹ) — to preserve by drying
• Russian: сушить (sušitʹ) — to preserve by drying
• Spanish: disecar — to preserve by drying
• Turkish: kurutmak — to preserve by drying
• Ukrainian: засушувати (zasušuvaty) — to preserve by drying