desiccate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
preserve by removing all water and liquids from
carry dehydrated food on your camping trip
Types & categories
- preserve hypernym
Related & opposite
- drying up derivation
- dehydration derivation
Sense 2 adjective
lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata
Related & opposite
- dull similar to
Sense 3 verb
remove water from
All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me
Types & categories
- dry hypernym
Related & opposite
- drying up derivation
- dehydration derivation
- dehydration derivation
Sense 4 verb
lose water or moisture
In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly
Types & categories
- dry hypernym
Related & opposite
- hydrate antonym
- drying up derivation
- dehydration derivation
- dehydration derivation
- drier derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | drying up |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dehydration |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | preserve |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | dull |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | drying up |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | dehydration |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | dehydration |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | dry |
| 4 | antonym | Related & opposite | hydrate |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | drying up |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dehydration |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dehydration |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | drier |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | dry |