The Collaborative International Dictionary
dried-up \dried-up\ adj. wrinkled or cracked from drying.
Syn: sere, sear, shriveled, withered.
2. having its water supply exhausted.
WordNet
adj. (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, shrivelled, withered]
depleted of water; "a dried-up water hole"
Usage examples of "dried-up".
Abstract Owl, the dried-up Western descendant of the Confucianist Dedicated Scholar, who, unlike his Noble but rather Unimaginative ancestor, thinks he has some sort of monopoly on.
Sand had filled the cracks in his face, giving the look of a dried-up riverbed.
A dried-up, sixtyish man in a work shirt, balding, with a mottled scalp, a hooked nose, and a gray beard bibbing his chest.
Shan West, Suma IV keeping a distance between the aircraft and the dome of nullifying energy over the dried-up Mediterranean.
Alice was dead and he was stranded with a dried-up swimming pool, a stranger from Turku, and no way to make the fuckers pay.
If one of the pair died, the remaining vaad usually lived less than a year, fading from life like a dried-up leaf.
The lizards sun themselves in the dried-up fountains and the fallen courts.
A road ran along the valley floor below her, leading into a magnificent city that spanned a dried-up lakebed.
The mudbrick walls had all but eroded away, leaving nothing but shin-high ridges laid out in a geometric pattern around an old, dried-up well.
Rose of Healing into the dirt, brushing aside dried-up needles and desiccated splinters of pine bark so that the outline made a bold mark on the path.
Such faces of dismay, such shaking of heads, such gatherings at corners, such halts of complaining, rheumatic wagons, and dried-up, chirruping chaises, for colloquy of their still-faced tenants, had not been known since the rainy November Friday, when old Malachi Withers was found hanging in his garret up there at the lonely house behind the poplars.
Atop the dresser was a forest of dried-up make-up bottles, lipsticks, bottles of scent that had long ago gone skunky, jars of cream and mascara applicators.
In a nearby dried-up watercourse there were barrel cacti, whose juice was drinkable.
Thinking, by God, I'd take it from every goddamned pissant in the plant just because I had to take it from that goddamned dried-up, bastardly, son-of-abitching old Fascist.
With a finger, she traced the Rose of Healing into the dirt, brushing aside dried-up needles and desiccated splinters of pine bark so that the outline made a bold mark on the path.