dried up

adjective

Dry; having run out of water or liquid.

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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of dry up
adjectivedried up (comparative more dried up, superlative most dried up)

comparative more dried up · superlative most dried up

  1. Dry; having run out of water or liquid.
  2. Of a person, wrinkled from age.

    The door was opened by an odd, swarthy, dried-up person of uncertain age, with a dark pilot jacket and brown leather gaiters.

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
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