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desiccated

adjective as in dried

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All of it, the fear, the fury, the exhaustion, the endless mundanity, the necessity of swallowing my own emotions and desires as best I could to care for my children, left me feeling like a husk, feather-light and desiccated.

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With thousands of years of pressure, plus dehydrating salt in the soil, their feces turned into non-smelly, desiccated samples with biomolecules still intact.

You’ve experienced desiccated soil if water has ever pooled around the base of your houseplants instead of soaking down to its roots.

The margins of survival in this desiccated land must be as thin as knives.

The Mastcam-Z will take in panoramic vistas that will help researchers get oriented, so they can tell if they’re looking at stones in a dried-up stream, a long-defunct volcanic vent, or a desiccated river delta.

There were, though, other loves that belied the appearance of a desiccated, workaholic spinster.

The ash beneath the stones where the eggs were found was only slightly moist; one clump of eggs was partially desiccated.

The road and the buildings look dry and desiccated, the harbour rather weary and end of the world.

Heaps of the books that have been written about the Bible are desiccated to the last grain of their dust.

The Seine no longer rolls its waves under Harfleur; and the desiccated harbor is now seen as a verdant meadow.

Frequently the child will scratch them off with the finger nails before they are entirely desiccated.

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On this page you'll find 114 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to desiccated, such as: dehydrated, dry, and preserved.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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