desiccate

Many of the lemon trees remain, as if untouched; others were wiped out completely, the hills where they stood blackened and desiccated.

Remnants of desiccated hay crunched underfoot, and the sun-baked soil was fragmented with deep cracks.

In today’s desiccated media landscape, it’s hard to imagine that Long Beach once supported two daily newspapers — the afternoon Press-Telegram and the morning Independent.

His hands and feet became “desiccated, clenched and drying,” he told the Daily Telegraph.

He says they were "like plastic...you could almost knock them...they were black, desiccating, clenched".