verb · transitive · rare

desiccate

de·sic·cate

desiccate · desiccates · desiccated · desiccating

висушувати, засушувати

высушивать, иссушать, засушивать, засушить

trocknen, dörren

To remove moisture fromTo remove moisture from; to dry; (sometimes) to dry to an extreme degree.

/ˈdɛsɪkeɪt/

» Do you think desiccated coconut will do for the topping instead of hundreds and thousands?

Findest du, Kokosraspeln reichen als Garnierung anstelle von Liebesperlen?

Meaning

3 senses

(transitive)To remove moisture from; to dry; (sometimes) to dry to an extreme degree.
trocknen, dörren
высушиватьvysušivatʹ, иссушатьissušatʹ
висушуватиvysušuvaty
(transitive)To preserve by drying.
trocknen, dörren
засушиватьzasušivatʹ, засушитьzasušitʹ, сушитьsušitʹ
засушуватиzasušuvaty
preserve by removing all water and liquids from
(intransitive, rare)To become dry; to dry up.

Examples

1 sentences

Do you think desiccated coconut will do for the topping instead of hundreds and thousands?
deFindest du, Kokosraspeln reichen als Garnierung anstelle von Liebesperlen?
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Translations

6 languages

Українська

By meaning 2

to remove moisture from — see also dry:

to preserve by drying:

Русский

By meaning 2

to remove moisture from — see also dry:

to preserve by drying:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

to remove moisture from — see also dry:

Origin

From Latin dēsiccō (“to dry completely, dry up”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from dē- (“

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.

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