dry up
[verb]
Synonyms: desiccate, devitalize, wither, mummify, mummy, shrivel, welter, wilt, wizen, shut up, dumb (up), dummy (up), pipe down, ring off

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dry up phrasal verb (see also dry)

1. COME TO AN END if a supply of something dries up, it comes to an end and no more is available:
Foreign investment may dry up.
The work soon dried up.

2. RIVER/LAKE ETC if something such as a river dries up, the water in it disappears:
Across central and west Texas, waterholes and wells have dried up.
dry something ↔ up
Taking too much water for household use is drying up the river.

3. STOP TALKING if someone dries up, they stop talking:
‘It was -’ She dried up again.
Everyone became embarrassed and conversation dried up.

4. PLATES/DISHES ETC British English to rub plates, dishes etc dry with a cloth after they have been washed
dry something ↔ up
I’ll just dry up these mugs and we can have a coffee.

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dry up
to disappear.
Many of those jobs dried up in the 1990s.

Funding has all but dried up for new research in the field.

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dry up
to become dry
The river began to dry up early in the summer.

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dry up
v.
1. To become dry.
The reservoir dried up during the four-month drought.
2. To disappear or vanish as if by evaporating.
The Senator's influence dried up when he was voted out of office.
3. slang To stop talking.
■ Often used as a command.
"Dry up!" Tony said angrily when his friend told him for the third time that he had made a mistake in his theme.
Synonym: SHUT UP¹.

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