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  • noun Common misspelling of desiccation.

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Examples

  • This process, called dessication, "is more than just drying up," Mancinelli said.

    Wired Top Stories Lisa Grossman 2010

  • I don’t know if BCP are vulnerable to drought or winter dessication, which is the same thing, different seasonal process.

    Survivorship Bias « Climate Audit 2006

  • The authors said their findings are conservative, since there is insufficient information to account for additional stressors like pharmaceutical pollution, mining wastes and massive water diversions that have led to the dessication of many great rivers including the Colorado in the western United States, the Indus in Pakistan, the Yellow in China, and the Nile in Egypt.

    Lori Pottinger: River Defenders Gather in Mexico to Warn of Global Crisis Lori Pottinger 2010

  • 'The Son of No One' Anchor Bay Films Channing Tatum and James Ransone in 'The Son of No One' It's understandable that Dito Montiel, being a filmmaker, would have an affinity for pre-Giuliani New York: The chaos, crime and dessication of a place consuming itself is far more cinematic than a well-ordered metropolis.

    Crime Comedy 'Heist' Lacks Conviction John Anderson 2011

  • Or is it like dessication - flaking dead on the sheets

    Many Morning Penny Goring 2011

  • The authors said their findings are conservative, since there is insufficient information to account for additional stressors like pharmaceutical pollution, mining wastes and massive water diversions that have led to the dessication of many great rivers including the Colorado in the western United States, the Indus in Pakistan, the Yellow in China, and the Nile in Egypt.

    Lori Pottinger: River Defenders Gather in Mexico to Warn of Global Crisis Lori Pottinger 2010

  • That last one looks like it has a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables in various stages of dessication, plus whatever those erect things in the middle may be sausages? chocolate-covered bananas? really ugly cucumbers?

    The Cake Wrecks Correlation 2010

  • It was the dessication that I'd come to associate with youth.

    Miniature Golf 2010

  • This is because they can survive total dessication which fragments their genome.

    Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water again ... - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • At this same locality I also found several horizons of dessication mudcracks, synaeresis mudcracks, and wave-form ripples.

    Fossilized Ripples - The Panda's Thumb 2009

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