Dried
Old
Old adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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But blood as a sacrifice is extremely powerful, even when it's old and dried into a piece of cloth.
Source: Manga / Bokura no Kiseki - Note that this is not some dried-out, thousand-year-old desiccated mummy, but a very fresh corpse that also happens to be frozen solid at the time.
Source: Made of Incendium -
Agatha Raisin: In "Agatha Raisin and The Day the Floods Came", Agatha Raisin is ranting about a suspect that called her "a dried-up, old spinster".
Source: I Take Offense to That Last One
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