dried up

adj — 2 senses

dried up

adj
1

Dry; having run out of water or liquid.

2

Of a person, wrinkled from age.

  • The door was opened by an odd, swarthy, dried-up person of uncertain age, with a dark pilot jacket and brown leather gaiters.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
Related terms
dried out, dried-up-ness, shriveled

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