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- verb
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- to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull [Princeton Review]
- remove all the moisture from to preserve it [Barron]
- to preserve (a food) by drying; dehydrate [Taisha]
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- dry out all the moisture
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- to dry up, dehydrate
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