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desiccated

[des-i-key-tid] / ˈdɛs ɪˌkeɪ tɪd /
ADJECTIVE
dried
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"Everything is there. I was stuck here," he told AFP in Karachi, near the well-known Bengali market where he peddles desiccated fish and prawns to make ends meet for $7 to $9 per day.

From Barron's

He was “working with the new FDA,” he said in a LinkedIn post in November, to remove from the market desiccated thyroid extracts, a product critical to another company led by Tang, American Laboratories Holdings.

From The Wall Street Journal

His latest book’s rather desiccated title led me to believe it would mount some dry defense of religion in general.

From The Wall Street Journal

Oregon’s Lake Abert has repeatedly dried up, and biologists have found that when it’s desiccated, more phalaropes fly farther south to Mono Lake.

From Los Angeles Times

Prof Rein's research finds that, after ten consecutive days of very dry weather, vegetation becomes so desiccated across wide areas that the likelihood of multiple fires igniting simultaneously rises sharply.

From BBC