desiccate

Example Sentences

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As Western drought and aridification desiccate soils, shrink mountain snowpack runoff and reduce river flows, irrigating alfalfa for dairy production will become more and more problematic.

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2022

There's "a critical point", though, when the tree can't replenish the water lost through pores in the leaves and will "literally desiccate" or dry up.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2022

It has burned an area roughly twice the size of Disney World as high temperatures have helped desiccate the landscape, and the ground is replete with dry fuels available to burn.

From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2022

This can be done by delaying harvest, the proverbial “long hang-time” — popular in California for the last 20 years — in which grapes desiccate on the vine, increasing the ratio of sugar to liquid.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2019

Now she seemed to desiccate by the moment.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill