"exsiccate" meaning in English

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      "form": "exsiccates",
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      "form": "exsiccating",
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      "form": "exsiccated",
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          "ref": "1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 147",
          "text": "The guinea hen, so nearly exsiccated a few days earlier, dangles limp once again, as wet as if it had been freshly slaughtered.",
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        "To dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate."
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        "(transitive) To dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate."
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        {
          "word": "exsiccation"
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        {
          "word": "parch"
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