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  • 11dried-up — adjective 1. (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 • Syn: ↑sere, ↑sear, ↑shriveled, ↑ …

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  • 12Dried — Dry Dry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drying}.] [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See {Dry}, a.] To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one s …

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  • 13dried — Synonyms and related words: adust, baked, burnt, corky, dehydrated, desiccated, dried up, evaporated, exsiccated, mummified, parched, scorched, sear, seared, sere, shriveled, sun dried, sunbaked, weazened, wind dried, withered, wizened …

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  • 14dried up — Synonyms and related words: Sanforized, acarpous, adust, arid, atrophied, attenuated, baked, barren, brittle, burnt, celibate, childless, consumed, corky, dehydrated, desert, desiccated, desolate, drained, dried, dry, emacerated, emaciated,… …

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  • 15dried — [[t]dra͟ɪd[/t]] ADJ: ADJ n Dried food or milk has had all the water removed from it so that it will last for a long time. → See also dry ...an infusion which may be prepared from the fresh plant or the dried herb... Thirty six trucks were loaded… …

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  • 16dried-up — /druyd up /, adj. 1. depleted of water or moisture; gone dry: a dried up water hole. 2. shriveled with age; wizened: a dried up old mule skinner. [1810 20] * * * …

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  • 17dried-up — ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n (disapproval) If you describe someone as dried up, you are saying rudely that they are old and dull, and not worth paying attention to. [INFORMAL] → See also dry up She has no intention of becoming a dried up old prune… …

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  • 18dried — /draɪd / (say druyd) verb 1. past tense and past participle of dry. –phrase 2. dried out, a. (of land) completely parched: the plain was dried out during the drought. b. (of people in rural or outback areas) afflicted by drought so extreme that… …

  • 19dried up — adjective Dry; having run out of water. See Also: dried out …

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  • 20dried — adj. Dried is used with these nouns: ↑bean, ↑beef, ↑blood, ↑chilli, ↑fish, ↑flower, ↑fruit, ↑herb, ↑meat, ↑milk, ↑mud, ↑mushroom, ↑ …

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