desiccate
英 ['desɪˌkeɪt] 美 [ˈdɛsɪˌket]

vt.

弄干，使脱水；使失水；

英英释义

desiccate[ 'desikeit ]

• v.
  • preserve by removing all water and liquids from

    同义词：dehydrate

  • remove water from

    同义词：dehydrate

  • lose water or moisture

    同义词：exsiccatedehydratedry up

• adj.lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless

  "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"

  同义词：ariddesiccated

权威例句

Aral Sea syndrome desiccates Lake Urmia: Call for action
[Does the modern office environment desiccate the eyes?].
Microdesiccates produced from normal human tears display four distinctive morphological components
Can air pollution desiccate the eyes? A cross-sectional study in the aftermath of an explosion accident
Declining hydraulic efficiency as transpiring leaves desiccate: two types of response *
Vulnerability of shallow subarctic lakes to evaporate and desiccate when snowmelt runoff is low.
Anhydrobiosis in Nematodes II: Carbohydrate and Lipid Analysis in Undesiccated and Desiccate Nematodes
In vitro conservation and production of vigorous and desiccate tolerant synthetic seed formation in sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum...
A study of the use of the trimesium salt of glyphosate to desiccate and ret flax and linseed (Linum usitatissimum) and of its effect...
Influence of temperature and darkness on embryonic diapause termination in dormant Artemia cysts that have never been desiccated