dried-up
Use Dried-up in a sentence
adjective
1.
depleted of water or moisture; gone dry: a dried-up water hole.
2.
shriveled with age; wizened: a dried-up old mule skinner.
Origin:
1810–20
1810–20
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| dried-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" |
| 2. | depleted of water; "a dried-up water hole" |
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Dried-up
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
Example sentences
Nor does this figure include the effect of fire on dried-up bogs.
Then, soybeans and other cash crops are seeded through the dried-up plant residue, which forms a surface mulch.
As the day wore on the streams of health and positiveness flowed once more in the dried-up channels, and she was her proper self.
The disease frequently attacks the base of the seedling and leaves a shriveled dried-up stem at the base of the seedling.
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