dried up
Speech parts
1. dried up - Adjective
2. dried up - Verb
3. dried up - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
depleted of water
(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
Source: WordNetAlternative names
dried-up
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Examples
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.
He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn't able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.
When I am dead the world can be an ocean or a dried up ditch.
When a woman knows no more how to answer, she must be dried up.