Dry up

Synonyms for "dry up" (93 found)

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Closest matches (19)

Noun(4 words)
ariditybecome speechlesscessation of moisturedehydrate
Verb(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)

Strong matches (28)

Noun(8 words)
dried beakerdroughtdry outdry spelldryingdrying upevaporateevaporating rapidly

Related words (46)

Noun(3 words)
go drygo mutewithers
Verb(2 words)
Adjective(3 words)
potted plant drynessshrivelledwithered

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

16 entries
change of moisturechange of statecommunication difficultydrydry outeventperiodprocessresource depletionshrinkshrivelshrivel upspeech impairmentstate changeweather phenomenonwither

More specific

13 entries
desiccatedryingevaporationmutingregional droughtriver dries upriver dry-upseasonal droughtspeechlessnessspring dry-upstream runs drywell runs drywordlessness

Collocations

11 entries
dried up tearsdry up completelydry up fundsdry up quicklydry up the riverdry up the spilldry-up cycledry-up periodlong dry-upseasonal dry-upwater source dry-up

Inflections

4 entries
dried updries updry-upsdrying up

Derivations

4 entries

similar

1 entries

Translations

24 translations across 17 languages.

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Albanian

2 entries
  • ter verb (to become dry)
  • thaj verb (to become dry)

Basque

1 entries
  • agortu verb (to become dry)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • изсъхвам verb (to become dry)

Cornish

3 entries
  • desegha verb (to become dry)
  • deseha verb (to become dry)
  • desygha verb (to become dry)

Dutch

1 entries
  • opdrogen verb (to become dry)

Finnish

1 entries
  • kuivua verb (to become dry)

German

4 entries
  • austrocknen verb (to become dry)
  • verdorren verb (to become dry)
  • versiegen verb (to become dry)
  • vertrocknen verb (to become dry)

Gothic

1 entries
  • 𐌲𐌰𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍃𐌽𐌰𐌽 verb (to become dry)

Lutuv

1 entries
  • ky verb (to become dry)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • قورومق verb (to become dry)

Polish

2 entries
  • wyczerpać verb (to become dry)
  • wyczerpywać verb (to become dry)

Romanian

1 entries
  • se usca verb (to become dry)

Sanskrit

1 entries
  • शुष्यति verb (to become dry)

Swedish

1 entries
  • sina verb (to become dry)

Turkish

1 entries
  • kurumak verb (to become dry)

Ugaritic

1 entries
  • 𐎃𐎗𐎁 verb (to become dry)

Uyghur

1 entries
  • قۇرۇماق verb (to become dry)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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I'll go shopping when it dries up.

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Last summer the lake completely dried up.

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But those newcomers need water — water that is vanishing as a megadrought dries up reservoirs and rivers across the West. […] Groundwater and streams vital both to farmers and cities are drying up. […] Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah said all but one of the fields on his family’s farm had dried up.

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The heatwave dried up all the rivers.

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