dried up

English

Verb

dried up

1. simple past and past participle of dry up

Adjective

dried up (comparative more dried up, superlative most dried up)

1. Dry; having run out of water or liquid.
2. Of a person, wrinkled from age.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     The door was opened by an odd, swarthy, dried-up person of uncertain age, with a dark pilot jacket and brown leather gaiters.

Related terms

• dried out (adj)

See also

• shriveled (adj)

Anagrams

• updried