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dried up

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verb

past tense of dry up

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dried-up
Adjective
  • In an interview with CNN from her home in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Hassanein appeared frail and exhausted.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
  • But falling into a hire for reasons of comfort alone is going to be tough to sell for a franchise that’s exhausted by the comfortable status quo.
    Saad Yousuf, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Those rewards are less about shutting up and playing the hits than understanding that the relationship to the audience is slightly different.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Honestly, my plan coming in was to shut up, stay under the radar.
    Liza Esquibias, People.com, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • This Latitude Run mat at Wayfair is made with tightly woven cotton fibers, which traps moisture effectively, keeping the floor dry and slip-free.
    Jené Luciani Sena, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Southern California's climate continues to ping-pong between unseasonably wet conditions, which grow vegetation and unseasonably dry conditions which dry all that out into fire fuel.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Fire crews moved fast, throwing heavy resources at the fires as Santa Ana winds delivered a big, direct hit on San Diego County, arriving from the east-northeast before dawn and whooshing largely unfettered through arid mountain passes and canyons.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
  • And precipitation in arid environments is infrequent.
    Jason Bittel, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The video shows a man trying to drag Zakariya’s lifeless body before he too is shot.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
  • All along, the film lingers on the statues and busts, lifeless figures watching the horrors wrought by a house that’s unnervingly alive.
    Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • If successful, this process could deal with the americium that is the most dangerous and long-lived component of spent reactor fuel.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Conventional wisdom describes the Green Movement as a spent force, citing the lack of mass demonstrations over the past year and half.
    Michael Ledeen, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2012
Adjective
  • While urban areas like Los Angeles are under mandatory drought restrictions to reduce strain on state reservoirs, many rural residents reliant on groundwater wells are waterless.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Other eco-friendly measures include a solid waste incinerator to turn waste into non-toxic ash and a waterless urinal to reduce unnecessary usage.
    Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2022
Adjective
  • It should be kept in mind that the territory the cession of which is provided for is largely desert and very sparsely inhabited.
    Anonymous, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2011
  • The ban covers the non-desert regions of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties and most of Orange County and prohibits outdoor and residential burning of wood and manufactured logs.
    Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2021
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Thesaurus Entries Near dried-up

dried

dried-up

dried up

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