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desiccate
English
Etymology
From Latin d?sicc?re (“to dry completely, dry up”) +? -ate (verb suffix indicating acting in the specified manner). D?sicc?re is derived from d?sicc? (“to desiccate, dry up; to drain dry”) (from d?- (prefix meaning ‘completely, to exhaustion’) + sicc? (“to dry; to drain, exhaust”), from siccus (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-) + -?re.
The adjective is derived from Latin d?sicc?tus (“dried up”), the perfect passive participle of d?sicc?: see above. The noun is derived from the adjective.
Pronunciation
- Verb and adjective:
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?s?ke?t/, (archaic) /d??s?ke?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d?s?ke?t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?s?ke?t/, (archaic) /d??s?ke?t/
- Noun:
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?d?s?k?t/
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?d?s?k?t/
- Hyphenation: de?sic?cate
Verb
desiccate (third-person singular simple present desiccates, present participle desiccating, simple past and past participle desiccated)
- (transitive) To remove moisture from; to dry. [from late 16th c.]
- Synonyms: dehydrate, (obsolete) exiccate, exsiccate, parch
- Antonyms: hydrate, moisten, moisturize, wet
- (transitive) To preserve by drying. [from late 16th c.]
- (intransitive, rare) To become dry; to dry up.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
desiccate (comparative more desiccate, superlative most desiccate)
- Having had moisture removed; dehydrated, dessicated.
- Synonym: dried
Translations
Noun
desiccate (plural desiccates)
- A substance which has been dessicated, that is, had its moisture removed.
Translations
References
Further reading
- dessication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- cadetcies
Latin
Verb
d?sicc?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of d?sicc?
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drain
English
Alternative forms
- drein (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English dreinen, from Old English dr?ahnian (“to drain, strain, filter”), from Proto-Germanic *drauhn?n? (“to strain, sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, parched”). Akin to Old English dr?gian (“to dry up”), Old English dr?gaþ (“dryness, drought”), Old English dr??e (“dry”). More at dry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?e?n/, IPA(key): /d??e?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
Noun
drain (plural drains)
- (chiefly US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
- (chiefly Britain) An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
- Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
- (vulgar) An act of urination.
- (electronics) One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- (pinball) An outhole.
- (Britain, slang, dated) A drink.
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Three Detective Anecdotes
- When the play was over, we came out together, and I said, "We've been very companionable and agreeable, and perhaps you wouldn't object to a drain?"
- 1966, Henry Mayhew, ?Peter Quennell, London's Underworld (page 48)
- What did she want with money, except now and then for a drain of white satin.
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Three Detective Anecdotes
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
drain (third-person singular simple present drains, present participle draining, simple past and past participle drained)
- (intransitive) To lose liquid.
- The clogged sink drained slowly.
- Knock knock.
Who's there?
Dwayne.
Dwayne who?
Drain the bathtub, I'm drowning.
- (intransitive) To flow gradually.
- The water of low ground drains off.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of.
- Please drain the sink. It's full of dirty water.
- (transitive, ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
- They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.
- (transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.
- The stress of this job is really draining me.
- (transitive) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
- But it was not alone that he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.
- (transitive, obsolete) To filter.
- (intransitive, pinball) To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
Derived terms
- drainable
- drainage
- drain away
- draining (adjective)
- drain out
- drain the lizard (vulgar)
- drain the main vain
Descendants
- ? French: drainer (see there for further descendants)
Translations
Anagrams
- Darin, Drina, Indra, Nadir, Nardi, Ndari, Radin, dinar, nadir, ranid
Cimbrian
Numeral
drain
- dative of drai
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