desiccate

1. preserve by removing all water and liquids from;

"carry dehydrated food on your camping trip"

2. remove water from;

"All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me"

3. lose water or moisture;

"In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"

1. 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