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# dried

«dried» in Mova's school dictionary: **Made dry by taking away water or wetness** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, past and past participle of «dry» (dry, dries, dried, drying); adjective (dried)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Made dry by taking away water or wetness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dried/#m1)

2) (of food) With the water taken out so it keeps a long time, like dried fruit or dried peas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dried/#m2)

3) (dried up) No longer having water, as a river; or no longer having ideas or words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dried/#m3)

4) Made to vanish or come to an end, as tears are dried up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dried/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, you dry your hands, hair and the dishes; dried fruit and pasta last long in the cupboard. In science, a puddle dries up by evaporation; drying salt water leaves salt behind — a way to separate a mixture. Phrases: «dried fruit», «dried up», «dried flowers», «dried out».

### examples

- I dried my hands on the towel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dried/#x1)
- The puddles dried up in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dried/#x2)
- Raisins are dried grapes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dried/#x3)
- We dried flowers by pressing them in a book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dried/#x4)
- The washing dried quickly in the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dried/#x5)
- When the salt water dried, salt crystals were left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dried/#x6)
- The river dried up in the long hot summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dried/#x7)
- He wiped his tears and dried his eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dried/#x8)
- A new desire dried them quickly away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dried/#x9)

### note

Spelling: y → ie before -ed and -es: dry, dries, dried; but drying keeps the y. The adjective «dry» (dry, drier, driest). Drying is a reversible-looking change for water, but the water has gone into the air as vapour (evaporation).

### In the corpora

- [Dried tardigrades survive great cold, high pressure and radiation, but they are not immortal, and active tardigrades are quite fragile.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures/7/)
- [Instant coffee is coffee liquid that was dried; ground coffee does not fully dissolve, so it needs a filter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/15/)
- [Popcorn pops because water inside each kernel turns to steam until the hard shell bursts; dried-out kernels pop badly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/9/)
- [Drying removes the water germs need, so dried fruit keeps for months; ancient Egyptians dried food in the sun to store it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/15/)
- [Dishes should be dried with a clean dry towel, because dishes put away wet can go mouldy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/111-chores-and-broken-things/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dried» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dried/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.