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dried (root: dry)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective dried has 2 senses
- dried(s = adj.all) Array - not still wet; "the ink has dried"; "a face marked with dried tears"
- dried(s = adj.all) dehydrated, desiccated - preserved by removing natural moisture; "dried beef"; "dried fruit"; "dehydrated eggs"; "shredded and desiccated coconut meat"
THESAURUS
dried
adust, baked, burnt, corky, dehydrated, desiccated, dried-up, evaporated, exsiccated, mummified, parched, scorched, sear, seared, sere, shriveled, sun-dried, sunbaked, weazened, wind-dried, withered, wizenedROGET THESAURUS
dried
Dryness
N dryness, siccity, aridity, drought, ebb tide, low water, exsiccation, desiccation, arefaction, dephlegmation, drainage, drier, desiccative, dessicator, dessicator, hair drier, clothes drier, gas drier, electric drier, vacuum oven, drying oven, kiln, lyophilizer, clothesline, dry, anhydrous, arid, adust, arescent, dried, undamped, juiceless, sapless, sear, husky, rainless, without rain, fine, dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit, water proof, water tight, dehydrated, dessicated.
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