verb
- to dry out completely; to remove all moisture from
Usage: formal or technical; often used in scientific, medical, or botanical contexts
Examples
- The botanist used heat to exsiccate the plant specimens for preservation.
- Prolonged drought will exsiccate the soil and harm crop growth.
- The laboratory exsiccated the tissue samples before analysis.
- Desert winds exsiccate exposed surfaces within hours.
- To preserve the herbs, we exsiccated them in a low-temperature oven.