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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "desiccation" in a sentence

    desiccation example sentences

    desiccation


    1. If it wasn’t for the artificial gravity Scott would be nauseous rather than just this strange insecure feeling that no more half a metre separated him from the cold suffocation and desiccation of space


    2. We can’t hurt ’em with heat, or cold, or desiccation, or even with the common disinfectants


    3. A mass exodus from the south had migrated north where the compressed population had been trapped under Russian territory like a pressure cooker and, with hundreds of millions of immigrants stampeding north to escape the blistering heat and desiccation of Africa, the situation had become impossible long before TBOS had been implemented


    4. reptiles to reproduce on land by preventing the desiccation, or


    5. After more than 60 years of desiccation and weathering, that much was


    6. Tomorrow the telephone gone! What a greedy fool he had been! He slipped his brittle ivory legs down from the bed, marveling at their desiccation


    7. The next minute a desiccation and burning away of their flesh occurred


    8. Animal life wears a hard, dry skin or an outer skeleton to defy the desiccation


    9. the desiccation of the powder


    10. It may be objected to me, that the mockeson of those naturalists is a Cenchris, and not a Scytale, therefore generically distinguished from the Copper-head; but on the other hand, we know that the genus Cenchris does not exist in nature, that the individual upon which it was founded, was either a fortuitous variety, or that the illustrious naturalist was deceived by the desiccation of his specimen, giving to the basal caudal plates a bifid aspect

    11. —, effect of the rarefaction of, on its desiccation and refrigeration, xl, 44;


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    Synonyms for "desiccation"

    dehydration desiccation drying up evaporation

    "desiccation" definitions

    dryness resulting from the removal of water


    the process of extracting moisture