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Definition: Dried-up |
Dried-upAdjective1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines". 2. Depleted of water; "a dried-up water hole". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dried-up" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Synonyms: Dried-upSynonyms: sear (adj), sere (adj), shriveled (adj), shrivelled (adj), withered (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dried-up |
| Specialty definitions using "dried-up": lost river. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cattle at a dried-up waterhole near Glendive, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Badlands5" by Paige Foster Commentary: "A rain gully or perhaps a dried-up creek bed in Badlands National Park, South Dakota." |
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| "Dried-up" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dried-up" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 37 | 56,631 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dried-up": dried-up-looking. | |
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| Language | Translations for "dried-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | かも知れない (at all, banter, because, completely, from, may, may be, might, out of, parched, perhaps, persiflage, possibly, quite, since, through, utterly). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | からから (parched). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ied-updray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: updried. | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: prided. | |
-2 letters: dried, druid, drupe, duped, duper, dured, perdu, pride, pried, prude, redid, redip, riped, udder. | |
-3 letters: died, dire, drip, dude, dupe, dure, ired, peri, pied, pier, pure, puri, redd, ride, ripe, rudd, rude, rued. | |
-4 letters: did, die, dip, dud, due, dui, dup, ire, ped, per, pie, piu, pud, pur, red, rei, rep, rid. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: puddlier, upgirded. | |
+2 letters: disrupted, pedicured, underpaid, upbraided. | |
+3 letters: epidendrum, prejudiced, repudiated. | |
+4 letters: decrepitude, epidendrums, superadding, underpinned, underpriced. | |
+5 letters: decrepitudes, reduplicated, superinduced, undeciphered, unprejudiced. | |
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