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Definition of Dry up

1. Verb. Lose water or moisture. "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"

2. Verb. Dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture. "A mummified body was found"

Definition of Dry up

1. Verb. (intransitive) To become dry (often of weather); to lose water. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To cause to become dry. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To deprive someone of (something vital). ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To cease to exist; to disappear ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive transitive) To manually dry dishes ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To stop talking, to forget what one was going to say. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dry Up

dry rot dry run dry runs dry season dry seasons dry socket dry spells dry steering dry sump dry synovitis

dry tetter dry ton dry unit dry up (current term) dry vermouth dry vomiting dry wall dry walling dry wash dry weight

dryable dryad dryades dryadic dryads dryandra dryandras dryas

Literary usage of Dry up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"dry up. To cease speaking or writing. 1856 It may be an improper expression ; perhaps it is not elegant; but we wish to make use of the following remark ..."

2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... amor," so doth love dry up his radical moisture. Another compares love to a melting torch, which stood too near the fire. 8 " Sic quo quis propior suse ..."

3. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"... vertes- tä) dry up; ... dry (up), become parched, ... tuttaa dry up, parch; cause .. to dry. ..."

4. An Italian and English Dictionary with Pronunciation and Brief Etymologies by August Hjalmar Edgren, Giuseppe Bico, John Lawrence Gerig (1901)
"subject to dry up. -сак cine, F.: dryness (aridity, barrenness); tiresomeness (importunity); ... dry up (drain); importune (weary, tease) ; REFL. ..."

5. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... amor" so doth love dry up his radical moisture. Another compares love to a melting torch, which stood too near the fire. " Sic quo quis propior suas ..."

6. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"dry up. Most obvious are certain changes in regard to the way in which animals are produced, and such changes run through a series of creatures * ; thus a ..."

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