Definition of "desiccating" []

• Present participle of desiccate. (verb)

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• "She saw his shadow as he passed the window, and her heart gave a great bound, for she knew who was "desiccating" the Sabbath by calling upon her."
• "Out on the open cliff land, beyond pines towering above the ubiquitous evergreen oaks, shady holly and bay, gorse is thick with yellow flowers – blooming again after the desiccating cold."
• "Without his meaty jowls, he looks like he could be one of the desiccating "original" millennium-old vampires on the Vampire Diaries."