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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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“California agriculture and Arizona agriculture are getting dried up in favor of water flowing to cities, and that is not a good thing,” says John Boelts, president of the Arizona Farm Bureau.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

Over the last few months, parts of the river have continued flowing, while other stretches dried up beside alfalfa fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

But the boom ended up smaller than anticipated and was followed by a predictable bust when federal stimulus dried up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

I described the hinge that never quite fastened, the edges that didn’t line up, and the paint that dried a little bumpy—so many imperfections that usually would have bugged me but didn’t.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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Related Words

• dehydrated
• dry
• preserved

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