verb/de.se.ʃe/
to dry, to dry out; to dry out
“1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I” — Finally, our hidalgo attached himself so much to his reading that his nights were spent reading from evening to moring, and his days, from morning to evening. So much so that because of his little sleep and excessive reading, he dried out his brain in such a way that he lost his mind.
Inherited from Old French, from Latin dēsiccāre.