desiccated

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. thoroughly dried out
- old boxes of desiccated Cuban cigars
- dried-out boards beginning to split
• Syn:
dried-out
• Similar to:
dry
2. preserved by removing natural moisture
- dried beef
- dried fruit
- dehydrated eggs
- shredded and desiccated coconut meat
• Syn:
dried, dehydrated
• Similar to:
preserved
3. lacking vitality or spirit;
lifeless
- a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata
- a desiccate romance
- "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
• Syn:
arid, desiccate
• Similar to:
dull