desiccate

Example Sentences

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Klosterman wondered if the recent heatwave would desiccate them.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

He dedicated scarce water to building up agriculture, helping to desiccate the ancient Persian system of underground aqueduct-like canals known as qanats.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023

As Western drought and aridification desiccate soils, shrink mountain snowpack runoff and reduce river flows, irrigating alfalfa for dairy production will become more and more problematic.

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2022

There's "a critical point", though, when the tree can't replenish the water lost through pores in the leaves and will "literally desiccate" or dry up.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2022

Now she seemed to desiccate by the moment.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill