Usually means: Remove moisture to dry completely.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. desiccate: Merriam-Webster
  2. desiccate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. desiccate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. desiccate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. desiccate: Vocabulary.com
  6. desiccate: Wordnik
  7. desiccate: Wiktionary
  8. desiccate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. desiccate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. desiccate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. desiccate: Dictionary.com
  12. Desiccate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Desiccate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. desiccate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. desiccate: Rhymezone
  16. Desiccate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. desiccate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. desiccate: FreeDictionary.org
  19. desiccate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. desiccate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desiccate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. desiccate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Desiccate: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Desiccate: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. desiccate: Medical dictionary
  7. Desiccate: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desiccate: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. desiccate: Dictionary of Geology

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desiccate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (desiccate)

verb:  (transitive) To remove moisture from; to dry; (sometimes) to dry to an extreme degree.
verb:  (transitive) To preserve by drying.
verb:  (intransitive, rare) To become dry; to dry up.
adjective:  Having had moisture removed; dehydrated, desiccated.
noun:  A substance which has been desiccated, that is, had its moisture removed.

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