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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dried
adj
  1. not still wet; "the ink has dried"; "a face marked with dried tears"
  2. preserved by removing natural moisture; "dried beef"; "dried fruit"; "dehydrated eggs"; "shredded and desiccated coconut meat"
    Synonym(s): dried, dehydrated, desiccated
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dried \Dried\, imp. & p. p.
      of {Day}. Also adj.; as, dried apples.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dry \Dry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dried}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Drying}.] [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See {Dry},
      a.]
      To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any
      kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to
      dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet
      cloth; to dry hay.
  
      {To dry up}.
      (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of
            water; to consume.
  
                     Their honorable men are famished, and their
                     multitude dried up with thirst.         -- Is. v. 13.
  
                     The water of the sea, which formerly covered it,
                     was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun.
                                                                              --Woodward.
      (b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk.
  
                     Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett
                                                                              (Thucyd. )
           
  
      {To dry, [or] dry up}, {a cow}, to cause a cow to cease
            secreting milk. --Tylor.
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