| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Lose water or moisture.[Wordnet]
2. To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up.[Websters] 3. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: exsiccating, exsiccated, exsiccates, exsiccater, exsiccaters, exsiccatingly and exsiccatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "EXSICCATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Note: Exsiccate \Ex"sic*cate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Exsiccated; present participle verb or noun Exsiccating.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EXSICCATE
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To dry; to exhaust or evaporate moisture.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] to dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
