Desiccated

Haag offers the analogy of what she calls the desiccated American Beauty marriage: It offers the husband, played by Kevin Spacey, two roles: to live either as a sexless, soul-crushingly dutiful and henpecked husband, or as a pot-smoking, self-absorbed adolescent who lusts after the high school cheerleader. ❋ Bella DePaulo (2011)

Insatiable reader that I was, I’d soon have desiccated from the need to imbibe stories if we had not discovered the local library. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The canopy world is a dry world - scientists call it "desiccated." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Anyone who can recall the desiccated, plastic-wrapped sandwiches of British Railway's cafés will concede that competition in this arena is to be encouraged. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That those natural treatments, such as desiccated thyroid like Armour made by Forest Labs of the US, are changing lives and removing those lingering hypothyroid symptoms because of the presence of direct T3; ❋ Unknown (2009)

Do you really believe 'desiccated' has two 's's and one' c '? ❋ Rendell, Ruth (2000)

During the Atlanta campaign we were supplied by our regular commissaries with all sorts of patent compounds, such as desiccated vegetables, and concentrated milk, meat-biscuit, and sausages, but somehow the men preferred the simpler and more familiar forms of food, and usually styled these "desecrated vegetables and consecrated milk." ❋ David Widger (N/A)

Eloise explained that she had gone to church, and Jack told of the key under the mat, and the talk flowed on; and Eloise could not forbear telling them of Mrs. Biggs's wish not to have the Sabbath "desiccated" by visitors. ❋ Mary Jane Holmes (1866)

These typically include glandular products, such as desiccated liver, which are found in a variety of dietary supplements, including those for bodybuilding. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He is more accurately a kind of desiccated Lich: an undead sorcerer, preserved against the ravages of time by Egyptian black magic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This includes the storage of tissues and organs in a desiccated state, protection to [from] radiation and heat and, are you ready for this?, whole body conservation. ❋ AYDIN (2009)

First, anhydrobiotic survival is advantageous only if a species lives in a habitat that is periodically desiccated and if the species has no other means of surviving the dry period. ❋ AYDIN (2009)

She saw herself standing with Worf on the scarred, desiccated soil once occupied by her family home along with the entire province of Mallarashtra where she had lived as a child. ❋ Dayton Ward (2011)

Embodying this lavish series' dark heart and desiccated soul is the marvelous Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo "Pope Alexander VI" Borgia, presiding with ghoulish and unsparing cunning over his embattled empire and unruly offspring, which includes borderline incestuous siblings. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If desiccated rotifers and tardigrades or the seeds and spores of various plants are routinely exposed to temperatures around 40 °C, then those individuals that have evolved to incorporate a safety factor into their adaptation that makes them survive slightly higher temperatures, say 50 °C, will fare better in the long run when and if the habitat temperature happens to rise that high. ❋ AYDIN (2009)