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• past participle of dry.
• past tense form of dry.

dried

American  

[drahyd] / draɪd /

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of dry.

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dried British  

/ draɪd /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of dry

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Other Word Forms

• half-dried
  adjective
• undried
  adjective
• well-dried
  adjective

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Explanation

Something that's dried isn't wet anymore. Dried ink on a page can't be smudged. The dried tears on your cheek are nothing but salty patches, and dried concrete on the sidewalk is completely solid — you can't leave a handprint in it. Some things are deliberately dried, with all moisture removed from them. Dried apricots and sun dried tomatoes, for example, are dehydrated so they become dense, sweet, and chewy. Dried has a Germanic root, dreug, which means "dry."

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Ukraine’s stocks of munitions for the F-16s also dried up several months ago, and pilots are reliant on the planes to shoot down the jet-powered drones currently pummeling Ukraine, air-defense officers in the country say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

“Right after we get out of our wet clothes, they go straight to the laundry and get everything washed and dried for the next show.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The lake has dried up due to a combination of factors, including geological fissures that drain water underground, below-average rainfall and repeated heatwaves.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

I turned perhaps $50 worth of produce into dried fruit, jam and an apricot pie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

She wiped my face with the corner of her apron and pressed a bag of dried leaves into my hands.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

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Related Words

• dehydrated
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