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desiccate

verbCommon GRE wordMore D words

to dry out thoroughly

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Desiccate in a sentence

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The relentless sun desiccated the riverbed into cracked clay.

Synonyms
dehydrateparchdry
Antonyms
moistenhydratesaturate

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Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.

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Desiccate (verb) means to dry out thoroughly
Here is desiccate used in an example sentence: "The relentless sun desiccated the riverbed into cracked clay."
Common synonyms for desiccate include dehydrate, parch, dry.
Antonyms of desiccate include moisten, hydrate, saturate.
Desiccate is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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