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dehydrate, desiccate

v. remove water from; "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me"

dehydrate, desiccate

v. preserve by removing all water and liquids from; "carry dehydrated food on your camping trip"

exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up, desiccate

v. lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"

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arid, desiccate, desiccated

adj. 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

preserve, keep

v. prevent (food) from rotting; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh"

evaporate, vaporise

v. change into a vapor; "The water evaporated in front of our eyes"

shrink, shrivel

v. decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"

singe, swinge

v. burn superficially or lightly; "I singed my eyebrows"

smoke

v. inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?"

godforsaken, waste, wild

adj. located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"

childless

adj. without offspring; "in some societies a childless woman is rejected by her tribesmen"

bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain

adj. unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"

useless

adj. having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency"

sterile, unfertile, infertile

adj. incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"

uninspired

adj. having no intellectual or emotional or spiritual excitement; "the production was professional but uninspired"

sterile

adj. free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms; "a sterile operating area"; "aseptic surgical instruments"; "aseptic surgical techniques"

sunbaked

adj. baked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burned; "sunbaked adobe bricks"

anhydrous

adj. without water; especially without water of crystallization

bone-dry

adj. without a trace of moisture

desiccated, dried-out

adj. thoroughly dried out; "old boxes of desiccated Cuban cigars"; "dried-out boards beginning to split"

dried

adj. not still wet; "the ink has dried"; "a face marked with dried tears"

dried-up

adj. depleted of water; "a dried-up water hole"

dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered

adj. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines"

dry-shod

adj. having or keeping the feet or shoes dry; "a land bridge over which man and beasts could have crossed dry-shod"

rainless

adj. lacking rain; "a rainless month"; "rainless skies"

thirsty

adj. needing moisture; "thirsty fields under a rainless sky"

hydrate

v. cause to be hydrated; add water or moisture to; "hydrate your skin"

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