different between inundate vs desiccate

English

Etymology

From Latin inund? (“I flood, overflow”), from und? (“I overflow, I wave”), from unda (“wave”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??n.?n.de?t/
• (UK, also) IPA^(key): /??n.?n.de?t/

Verb

inundate (third-person singular simple present inundates, present participle inundating, simple past and past participle inundated)

1. To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.

   The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.

2. To overwhelm.

   The agency was inundated with phone calls.

   • 1852, The New Monthly Magazine (page 310)

     I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.

Synonyms

• (to cover with water): deluge, flood, beflood
• (to overwhelm): deluge, flood, beflood

Related terms

• inundation
• undulate

Translations

Anagrams

• antidune

Esperanto

Adverb

inundate

1. present adverbial passive participle of inundi

Latin

Verb

inund?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of inund?

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/
• Noun:
  • (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)

1. (transitive) To remove moisture from; to dry. [from late 16th c.]

   Synonyms: dehydrate, (obsolete) exiccate, exsiccate, parch

   Antonyms: hydrate, moisten, moisturize, wet
2. (transitive) To preserve by drying. [from late 16th c.]
3. (intransitive, rare) To become dry; to dry up.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

desiccate (comparative more desiccate, superlative most desiccate)

1. Having had moisture removed; dehydrated, dessicated.

   Synonym: dried

Translations

Noun

desiccate (plural desiccates)

1. 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

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?sicc?