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: Don't Want to Divorce? Indulge Your Polyamory or Asexuality, Have Your Affairs, Live Apart 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.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A love song to libraries 2008

The canopy world is a dry world - scientists call it "desiccated."

The Seattle Times 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.

The New York Review of Books 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;

UK's Royal College of Physicians a nightmare for thyroid patients 2009

Do you really believe 'desiccated' has two 's's and one' c '?

Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories 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."

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

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.

The Cromptons Mary Jane Holmes 1866

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."

Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Complete 1855

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."

Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Volume 2 1855