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Meanings of dried-up in English
Synonyms
Examples for "withered"
Examples for "withered"
1
Now, in late spring, the young crops withered in the dry ground.
2
Eleven years earlier, when she was twenty-five, her right arm had withered.
3
I found it next morning lying withered and brown in the hall-way.
4
The fruits rotted on the branches, and the leaves withered and fell.
5
A splendid vision of sunlit egalitarian uplands after the State withered away.
1
And, in general, Scutari's high idea of European civilization shrivelled and shrank.
2
Before those darting points of flame the pride of the French shrivelled.
3
The hands and feet, in their shrivelled state, are slender and delicate.
4
She bent her cheek upon the shrivelled hand resting upon the arm.
5
It was as though the long-continued cold had cracked and shrivelled him.
1
The shriveled leaves were blown from the trees by the fierce gusts.
2
He was thin and shriveled and had clearly been shriveling for years.
3
The parchment head was green with mold, and hung in shriveled tatters.
4
Roast until the grapes are juicy and slightly shriveled, about 10 minutes.
5
Open fell the mouth, revealing the dog-teeth and the blue, shriveled-looking gums.
1
Add steaks and sear on both sides, about 1 minute per side.
2
The garden was now dead and sear in the late October frost.
3
Add tuna and sear until golden, about 1 minute on both sides.
4
Working in batches, sear meatballs on all sides to develop a crust.
5
Gently coat the patties in fresh breadcrumbs and sear in hot oil.
1
He explained this to her in a sere reach of the garden.
2
Twenty years, and they the years of the sere, the yellow leaf.
3
The horizon was merely a blue haze-andthe endless land was sere.
4
The dead grass and the dead leaves made a sere, yellow world.
5
Now its trunk was snapped, its boughs crushed, its foliage turning sere.
Usage of dried-up in English
1
The goat-herds even had forsaken the dried-up pastures and the leafless hedges.
2
She thought again of that dried-up corpse, but not for very long.
3
Well, go back to the first point: the dried-up appearance of things.
4
It is parked deep within the Endemol complex, near a dried-up river.
5
The way that little dried-up sinner found out everything was positively uncanny.
6
The house contained a dried-up old woman and four white-headed, half-naked children.
7
A dried-up cone is crushed to sudden splinters under my bare foot.
8
He was small, dried-up and weather-beaten, and wore a thin, threadbare coat.
9
Mr. Solomon Madgin was a little dried-up man, about sixty years old.
10
Is it any wonder that she is thin and dried-up and snappy?
11
Big lawn, dried-up pond, hedge, stone bird, goldenrod, TV aerial, no cat.
12
And in the old dried-up soil, how many strange treasures remain hidden!
13
So what'll you be then, a dried-up prune of an old maid?
14
It's quite possible that he also knows about the dried-up well by now.
15
She looked defiantly at the yellow, dried-up creature in the bed.
16
Hawk led the way down into the thorn-bushes and dried-up plants.