dried up

To run out of strength  also provides the pronunciation

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

固 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

to become solid

Evolution

涸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
涸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
涸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

dried up; exhausted, tired; dry; to dry; to dry up

Most common words with 涸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

干涸

to dry up

to dry

涸泽而渔

lit. to drain the pond to get at the fish (idiom)

涸辙之鲋

fig. a person in dire straits