dried
Americanverb
verb
Other Word Forms
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."
Example Sentences
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Meaning: Do you want your dish smothered in sauce made from roasted green chiles, or a simmered counterpart fashioned from dried red chile pods?
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
It typically spreads from rodents through dried urine and droppings.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
Demand dried up by as much as 7% year over year in 2022, amid the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, as average gas prices hovered around $5 a gallon.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
The material was then dialyzed, sterile filtered, and freeze dried.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
I broke into a sprint, running so fast that my mouth and throat dried out from the air I was gulping.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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