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Dry up
verb
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Verb
- 1 To become dry (often of weather); to lose water. intransitive
"I'll go shopping when it dries up."
- 2 lose water or moisture wordnet
- 3 To cause to become dry. transitive
"The heatwave dried up all the rivers."
- 4 dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture wordnet
- 5 To manually dry dishes and utensils. ambitransitive, intransitive
"I'll dry up if you wash up."
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- 6 To deprive someone of (something vital). transitive
"The bankruptcy rumor dried up his sales."
- 7 To gradually decrease and eventually cease. intransitive
"When our money dried up, we had to get proper jobs."
- 8 To stop talking because one has forgotten what one was going to say. intransitive
"This surprised me so much that I dried up for a moment."
- 9 To stop talking because one has forgotten what one was going to say.; To forget one's lines. intransitive
- 10 To stop talking or drop a topic.
"Oh, dry up, you old fuddy-duddy!"
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