The Collaborative International Dictionary
dried-out \dried-out\ adj. thoroughly dried; having no moisture remaining.
Syn: dehydrated, desiccated.
WordNet
adj. thoroughly dried out; "old boxes of desiccated Cuban cigars"; "dried-out boards beginning to split" [syn: desiccated]
Usage examples of "dried-out".
Their voices may as well be the chatter of crows as I remember the thick Miami grass of my childhood, and dried-out chinch bug husks and the key lime tree in my small backyard.
Added to the collection were different kinds of feathers, some dried-out corncobs with multicolored kernels, and a couple of fragile-looking, almost transparent snake-skins.
The just as aptly named town was mostly sun-silvered frame, dozing like a big dried-out buffalo chip in the late morning sun as Longarm rode in.
Her Pan-Cake makeup was cracking like a dried-out Dakota lake bed.
I used the last of Marino's dishwashing liquid and had to resort to a dried-out bar of soap I found under the sink.
Woodland Indians could be hell on trees with useful bark, such as birch or elm, but they liked to choose dried-out deadwood for fires, and had less call than white folks to chop down green and still-growing timber.
I could see dried-out toiletries, a belt, junk mail and old magazines rubber-banded in a bundle, five paperback novels, and a couple of pairs of shoes.
I finally parked up on the side of the road, dragged out the dried-out chest harnesses, the M-16, and the fuel can, then tabbed back toward the river with the gear dangling off me like a badly packed Cub Scout.
If it is dis-turbed, it can roll into Marre pine straw or a dried-out log and start a forest fire.
And so the littered gullies and dried-out river beds of Starside's bottoms formed a monstrous ossuary.