What is the meaning of desiccated?

verb

• Preserve by removing all water and liquids from.
  • usage: "carry dehydrated food on your camping trip"
  • synonyms: dehydrate, desiccate
• Remove water from.
  • usage: "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me"
  • synonyms: dehydrate, desiccate
• Lose water or moisture.
  • usage: "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"
  • synonyms: exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up, desiccate

adjective

• Thoroughly dried out.
  • usage: "old boxes of desiccated Cuban cigars"; "dried-out boards beginning to split"
  • synonyms: dried-out
• Preserved by removing natural moisture.
  • usage: "dried beef"; "dried fruit"; "dehydrated eggs"; "shredded and desiccated coconut meat"
  • synonyms: dried, dehydrated
• Lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless."a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature... Settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery-C. J. Rolo
  • synonyms: arid, desiccate