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[ verb ] lose water or moisture

Examples

"In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"

Used in print

(Leon Uris, Mila 8....)

Tolek_Alterman had returned from the colonies in Palestine and , before the national leadership , exalted the miracles of drying_up swamps and irrigating the desert .

He loathed the idea of drying_up swamps or the chills of malaria or of leaving his natural birthright .

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[ verb ] dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture

Synonyms

mummify

Examples

"a mummified body was found"

Related terms

shrivel mummify mummy

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