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desiccatingverbpresent participle of desiccate to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitalitythat historian's dryasdust prose desiccates what is actually an exciting period in European history castrating, dampening, damping, deadening, dehydrating, devitalizing, enervating, gelding, lobotomizing, petrifying burning out, debilitating, doing in, draining, enfeebling, exhausting, fatiguing, sapping, tuckering (out), undermining, weakening, wearing, wearing outdaunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting bracing, energizing, enlivening, invigorating, quickening, stimulating, vitalizing, vivifying arousing, rousing, stirringcharging, electrifying, galvanizingexciting, fermenting, firing, fomenting, inciting, inflaming(also enflaming), instigating, kindling, provoking, sparking, triggering, whipping (up)abetting, boosting, buoying, cheering, emboldening, fortifying, heartening, inspiring, liftingreactivating, reanimating, reawakening, reawaking, recharging, reenergizing(or re-energizing), refreshing, regenerating, rejuvenating, rekindling, renewing, resurrecting, resuscitating, revitalizing, reviving to make dryadd a cup of desiccated coconut to the mix dehydrating, drying, parching, scorching, searing dehumidifyingdrainingevaporatingmummifying, shriveling(or shrivelling), withering, wizeningair-drying, baking hydrating, washing, watering, wetting bathing, deluging, dousing(also dowsing), drenching, drowning, flooding, inundating, overflowing, saturating, soaking, sopping, sousing, waterloggingdampening, damping, humidifying, moisteningrehydratingdipping, dunking, submerging, swamping |