Dried-up in a sentence as an adjective

I'm living proof that you can be writing in C and not be a sour, dried-up dinosaur in the back corner of a lab somewhere.

Dried-up definitions

adjective

(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines"

See also: sere sear shriveled shrivelled withered

adjective

depleted of water; "a dried-up water hole"