Definition of "desiccated" [desiccated]

• Simple past tense and past participle of desiccate. (verb)
• Dried (adjective)

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• "Haag offers the analogy of what she calls the desiccated American Beauty marriage: It offers the husband, played by Kevin Spacey, two roles: to live either as a sexless, soul-crushingly dutiful and henpecked husband, or as a pot-smoking, self-absorbed adolescent who lusts after the high school cheerleader."
• "Insatiable reader that I was, I’d soon have desiccated from the need to imbibe stories if we had not discovered the local library."
• "The canopy world is a dry world - scientists call it "desiccated.""