Verb
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lose water or moisture
"In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"
- dry up -
remove water from
"All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me"
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preserve by removing all water and liquids from
"carry dehydrated food on your camping trip"
Adjective
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lacking vitality or spirit
lifeless
"a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"
"a desiccate romance"
"a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo