'To dry up' definitions:
Definition of 'To dry up'
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- Dry \Dry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dried; p. pr. & vb. n. Drying.] [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See Dry, a.] To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay. [1913 Webster]
- To dry up. (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume. [1913 Webster]
- Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. -- Is. v. 13. [1913 Webster]
- The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun. --Woodward. (b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk. [1913 Webster]
- Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett (Thucyd. )
- To dry a cow, or To dry up a cow, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk. --Tylor. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To dry up'
- Dried,
- Dry,
- Drying,
- dri,
- dried up,
- dry out,
- dry up,
- drying up,
- Cut and dried,
- Dry Creek,
- Dry Prong,
- Dry Ridge,
- Dry Run,
- Dry area,
- Dry blow,
- Dry bone,
- Dry castor,
- Dry cup,
- Dry cupping,
- Dry distillation,
- Dry dock,
- Dry fat,
- Dry goods,
- Dry light,
- Dry masonry,
- Dry measure,
- Dry meter,
- Dry nurse,
- Dry pile,
- Dry pipe,
- Dry plate,
- Dry point,
- Dry rent,
- Dry rot,
- Dry steam,
- Dry stove,
- Dry vat,
- Dry wine,
- Drying oil,
- High and dry,
- To dry a cow,
- To dry up a cow,
- bone dry,
- dried apricot,
- dried fruit,
- dried milk,
- dried-out,
- dried-up,
- dry battery,
- dry cell,
- dry cereal,
- dry clean,
- dry cleaner,
- dry cleaners,
- dry cleaning,
- dry cure,
- dry fly,
- dry fruits,
- dry gangrene,
- dry ice,
- dry kiln,
- dry land,
- dry milk,
- dry mop,
- dry mouth,
- dry mustard,
- dry pack,
- dry pint,
- dry quart,
- dry season,
- dry socket,
- dry unit,
- dry vermouth,
- dry wall,
- dry walling,
- dry wash,
- drying agent,
- freeze dry,
- run dry,
- suck dry,
- sucked dry,
- tumble dry,
- Dry Creek, AK,
- Dry Creek, OK,
- Dry Prong, LA,
- Dry Ridge, KY,
- Dry Run, OH,
- Dry-beat,
- Dry-boned,
- Dry-eyed,
- Dry-fisted,
- Dry-rub,
- Dry-rubbed,
- Dry-rubbing,
- Dry-shod,
- Dry-stone,
- Freeze-dried,
- Freeze-dry,
- Freeze-drying,
- Kiln-dry,
- Smoke-dry,
- Sun-dried,
- air-dried,
- air-dry,
- blow-dry,
- bone-dry,
- cut-and-dried,
- cut-and-dry,
- drip-dry,
- dry plate process,
- dry-clean,
- dry-cleaned,
- dry-dock,
- dry-gulching,
- dry-nurse,
- dry-rot,
- dry-wall,
- floating dry dock,
- kiln-dried,
- medium-dry,
- nonfat dry milk,
- quick-drying,
- rough-dry,
- semi-dry,
- smoke-dried,
- spin-dry,
- spray-dried,
- spray-dry,
- Dry-plate process,
- dry-bulb thermometer,
- dry-stone wall,
- dry-wood termite,
- united states dry unit,
- dry ironic ironical pawky wry