desiccate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To preserve by drying.

   The nuts are then passed into a double disc machine, and this travelling at a speed of 3,000 revolutions per minute desiccates the coconut.

2. 2
   noun

   A substance which has been desiccated, that is, had its moisture removed.

   The Cy dyes are shipped as a desiccate in sealed packs.

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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