exsiccateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈɛksɪkeɪt/

動詞

exsiccate (third-person singular simple present exsiccates, present participle exsiccating, simple past and past participle exsiccated)

1. (transitive) To dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate.

   Synonym: parch

   Antonyms: hydrate, moisturize

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 147:

     The guinea hen, so nearly exsiccated a few days earlier, dangles limp once again, as wet as if it had been freshly slaughtered.

別の表記

• (obsolete) exiccate

派生語

関連する語

• exsiccation

アナグラム

• exiccates