dried-up
18
3.5
- adjective
- /draɪd ʌp/
:
seco
- After the drought, the once vibrant river had completely dried-up, revealing cracked earth beneath.
My local reuse store has a giant dresser full of dried up markers.
- My local reuse store has a giant dresser full of dried up markers.
- Things like whether they're flowing, dried up, or frozen.
- You tell Mama I'll scrape the rust off the bike and take that old trail the dried up river left.
Examples
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If the government subsidies hadn't dried up, I'd still be rolling in cash.
Fiction book (2002) -
The Prairie grass had become dried up and there was no convenient water to be had.
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But everything in the room had dried up and had long ago lost its color and smell.
Fiction book (2002) -
We were in a, a sort of a waddy, you know, a dried up stream bed.
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Jezero's crater is the site of a dried up lake.
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As capital flows dried up, the crisis soon morphed into a crushing recession in the real economy.
Academic text (2018) -
Drew and I shuffle sideways down a rock hill toward the dried-up garden.
Fiction book (1998) -
The flowers in the garden had all dried-up by the end of summer, leaving only wilted stems.
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She found a dried-up sponge in the sink, which needed water to become usable again.
Synonyms
13
4.7
Having very little water because of heat
8
2.8
Completely dry because it has no water left
7
1.3
Land or plants that need water because they are dry
3
3.4
A place with no water that is very dry like a desert
1
3.6
Food with most water removed so it lasts longer
1
9.9
Very dry and withered, often describing plants or leaves
1
3.4
Completely dry with no moisture
1
4.6
It looks dry, thin, and lifeless like old leaves
1
4.4
Left to dry in the air without using heat
1
1.0
Something that is no longer wet because its water has gone away
1
5.2
Dry and wrinkled because it has lost water
Completely dried so it has no water left
Dried and shrunken with a wrinkled surface from lack of water
Not given water and so dry
Antonyms
How Dry
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dried-up comes from dry and up: dry means 'no water' and up adds the idea 'completely gone'. So dried-up describes something that has lost all its moisture and is not fresh anymore.