DRIED-UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dried-up mean? 

• DRIED-UP (adjective)
  The adjective DRIED-UP has 2 senses:

1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture

2. depleted of water

  Familiarity information: DRIED-UP used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRIED-UP (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture

Synonyms:

dried-up; sear; sere; shriveled; shrivelled; withered

Context example:

withered vines

Similar:

dry (free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet)

Domain category:

botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Depleted of water

Context example:

a dried-up water hole

Similar:

dry (free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet)

 Context examples 

The second man was a long, dried-up creature, with lank hair and sallow cheeks.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My way ran down a dried-up watercourse, which we hoped would screen me from the enemy’s sentries; but as I crept round the corner of it I walked right into six of them, who were crouching down in the dark waiting for me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Self-abandoned, relaxed, and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, and felt the torrent come: to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)