Ge-drycnan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-drycnan

pp. ed To dry up, emaciate with disease :-- Án wind cóm, and se wól mid þǽm winde. Þes moncwealm wæs. . . ofer ealle menn gelíce, þéh þe sume deáde wǽron, sume uneáþe gedrycnede aura corrumpens generali cunctos tabe confecit; ut etiam quos non egit in mortem turpi macie exinanitos adflictosque dintiserit, Ors. 3, 3 ; S. 102, 10. [O. H. Ger. ge-truchinit exsiccatum, siccatum: O. Sax. druknian to dry.] ge-drycnan