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Definition of Desiccating
1. desiccate [v] - See also: desiccate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desiccating
Literary usage of Desiccating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pneumonia: Its Supposed Connection, Pathological and Etiological, with by René La Roche (1854)
"1 Bad effects of copious rains followed by great and desiccating heat.— A wet
season, or heavy temporary rains, by converting dry and heretofore healthy ..."
2. Mineralogy and Chemistry by John Lawrence Smith (1873)
"FREEZING WATER BY THE AIR-PUMP WITHOUT SULPHURIC ACID OE OTHER desiccating AGENT.
In attempting to freeze water under the air-pump, without the aid of a ..."
3. Pneumonia: Its Supposed Connection, Pathological and Etiological, with by René La Roche (1854)
"1 Bad effects of copious rains followed by great and desiccating heat.— A wet
season, or heavy temporary rains, by converting dry and heretofore healthy ..."
4. Homœopathic therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1879)
"During later stages bell, modifies the itching of the desiccating pustules.
Bryonia. Precursory stage, with gastric symptoms, ..."
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