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dried-up

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adj.1.wrinkled or cracked from drying.
2.having its water supply exhausted.
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Adj.1.dried-up - (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines"
sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled, withered
botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"
dry - free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry"
2.dried-up - depleted of water; "a dried-up water hole"
dry - free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry"
Translations
dried-up [ˌdraɪdˈʌp] ADJ [river-bed, stream, oasis] → seco
dried-up
adj
(pej inf: = wizened) → verhutzelt; a dried-up old spinster → eine vertrocknete alte Jungfer
(= stale) food → eingetrocknet
river bed, oasis → ausgetrocknet; well → versiegt ? also dry up


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fortifications, any more than they are the ancient beds of dried-up rivers; for, on one side, the waters, so slight on the moon's surface, could never have worn such drains for themselves; and, on the other, they often cross craters of great elevation.
Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
Whether these chasms were the dried-up beds of ancient rivers or not they were unable thoroughly to ascertain.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
I found him first, a little withered, dried-up old fellow, wrinkled-faced and bleary-eyed and tottery.
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