(Used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture.
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.
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