ADJECTIVE
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(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
withered vines
shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings
dried-up grass
the desert was edged with sere vegetation -
depleted of water
a dried-up water hole
How To Use dried-up In A Sentence
- The buttons on lifts, tainted with vague trails of dried-up fluids, never escape her consciousness.
- That dried-up worthless twit once again obscures the real point with blather.
- What they portend is that—just as Wells had written at the start of "War of the Worlds"—an old, arid world with its dried-up canals is now intent on conquest. Why Steampunk's Time Has Come
- Today spinster suggests a rejected, dried-up "old maid," so much so that some single women are driven to adopt the ludicrous term bachelor girl to describe their status. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1
- Hubei province, Honghu city: A fisherman tries to paddle his boat through a small stream amid the partially dried-up fishery in the Honghu lake, Hubei province.
- All he'd had today was a dried-up ham sandwich, a stale vending-machine Milky Way, and what passed in the squad room for coffee. DOLL'S EYES
- The local residents dig water wells in the dried-up river beds. Louis Belanger: Turkana: Photo story of how North Kenya is coping with drought
- The orders for this occupation were made by General Kearney before he left, in pursuance of instructions from the War Department, merely to subserve a political end, for there were few or no people in Lower California, which is a miserable, wretched, dried-up peninsula. Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
- Hubei province, Honghu city: A fisherman tries to paddle his boat through a small stream amid the partially dried-up fishery in the Honghu lake, Hubei province.
- I should like to have you opposite me in any mood, whether the facetiously discursive, the metaphysically discursive, the personally confidential, or the jadedly CURSIVE and argumentative -- so that the oyster-shells which enclose my being might slowly turn open on their rigid hinges under the radiation, and the critter within loll out his dried-up gills into the circumfused ichor of life, till they grow so fat as not to know themselves again. Familiar Letters of William James I
