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dried-up

[ drahyd-uhp ]

/ ˈdraɪdˈʌp /

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adjective

depleted of water or moisture; gone dry: a dried-up water hole.

shriveled with age; wizened: a dried-up old mule skinner.

Origin of dried-up

First recorded in 1810–20

Words nearby dried-up

driblet, dribs and drabs, driech, dried, dried-fruit beetle, dried-up, driegh, drier, dries, driesch, driest

Example sentences from the Web for dried-up

His body is swept away with all the others, like a dried-up fly in a dusty corner.

Lars Iyer’s ‘Wittgenstein Jr.’ Plumbs the Deep Fun of Philosophical Fiction |Drew Smith |October 1, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But life lies behind me like a dried-up stream, and these eighteen years are lost as in a desert.

Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 |Various
Its greenness is intensified by contrast with the dried-up grass on the grazing lands.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India |Douglas Dewar
Little, dried-up geezer with a nose like a kit-fox's and a whine to his voice.

The Uphill Climb |B. M. Bower

He found his friend as usual the picture of dried-up coolness, so to say.

Doctor Claudius, A True Story |F. Marion Crawford
A couple of dried-up mummies with one foot in the grave, and I'm right in the prime of life!

Fore! |Charles Emmett Van Loan