desiccate

(verb) preserve by removing all water and liquids from. Synonyms: dehydrate. Example: "Carry dehydrated food on your camping trip."

(verb) remove water from. Synonyms: dehydrate. Example: "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me."

(verb) lose water or moisture. Synonyms: exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up. Example: "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly."

(adj) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless. Synonyms: arid, desiccated. Examples: "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."