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 →

2) (of food) With the water taken out so it keeps a long time, like dried fruit or dried peas. tree →

3) (dried up) No longer having water, as a river; or no longer having ideas or words. tree →

4) Made to vanish or come to an end, as tears are dried up. tree →

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 →
• The puddles dried up in the sun. tree →
• Raisins are dried grapes. tree →
• We dried flowers by pressing them in a book. tree →
• The washing dried quickly in the wind. tree →
• When the salt water dried, salt crystals were left. tree →
• The river dried up in the long hot summer. tree →
• He wiped his tears and dried his eyes. tree →
• A new desire dried them quickly away. tree →

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.
• Instant coffee is coffee liquid that was dried; ground coffee does not fully dissolve, so it needs a filter.
• Popcorn pops because water inside each kernel turns to steam until the hard shell bursts; dried-out kernels pop badly.
• Drying removes the water germs need, so dried fruit keeps for months; ancient Egyptians dried food in the sun to store it.
• Dishes should be dried with a clean dry towel, because dishes put away wet can go mouldy.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dried» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.