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Definition of Dried-up
1. Adjective. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture. "Withered vines"
Category relationships: Botany, Flora, Vegetation
Similar to: Dry
Derivative terms: Sereness
2. Adjective. Depleted of water. "A dried-up water hole"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dried-up
Literary usage of Dried-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... and drew out the pipe, which brought the bowels out with it by the fundament,
and the nitre dried up the ..."
2. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1867)
"But, if the lake happened to be suddenly dried up, either ? 277. Bed totally or
in a great part of it, the bed would remain in the"f. ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... his liver smoky, his lungs dried up, insomuch that he verily believed his soul
was either sodden or roasted through the vehemency of love's fire. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"which an entryman of a timber claim, before patent issues, may lawfully assert
against a third party, squatting on such dried up bed or accretion? ..."
5. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"was present at the cutting up of one that died for love, J " h« heart was combust,
his liver smoky, his lungs dried up, insomuch that he verily believed his ..."
6. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"The grass withereth, the flower 10. of the wilderness are dried up, 38. and they
shall be dried up; 6. for the hay is withered away, ó. shall be wasted and ..."
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