"dry up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dry up.wav Forms: dries up [present, singular, third-person], drying up [participle, present], dried up [participle, past], dried up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} dry up (third-person singular simple present dries up, present participle drying up, simple past and past participle dried up)
  1. (intransitive) To become dry (often of weather); to lose water. Tags: intransitive Synonyms: desiccate, ;, dehydrate Hypernyms: dry Coordinate_terms: dry out
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  2. (transitive) To cause to become dry. Tags: transitive Synonyms: desiccate, ;, dehydrate Hypernyms: dry Derived forms: dry up and blow away Coordinate_terms: dry out Translations (to cause to become dry): kuivattaa (Finnish), austrocknen (German), trockenlegen (German), podsuszać [imperfective] (Polish), podsuszyć [perfective] (Polish), usca (Romanian), kurutmak (Turkish), kurulamak (Turkish), قۇرۇتماق (qurutmaq) (Uyghur)
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  3. (intransitive, ambitransitive) To manually dry dishes and utensils. Tags: ambitransitive, intransitive Synonyms: dry, wipe up
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  4. (transitive) To deprive someone of (something vital). Tags: transitive Coordinate_terms: wipe out, ruin, tank
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  5. (intransitive) To gradually decrease and eventually cease. Tags: intransitive Synonyms: wither away
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  6. (intransitive) To stop talking because one has forgotten what one was going to say. Tags: intransitive Coordinate_terms: shut up, ;, freeze up
    Sense id: en-dry_up-en-verb-87ci0w~~
  7. (intransitive) To stop talking because one has forgotten what one was going to say.
    (of an actor) To forget one's lines.
    Tags: intransitive Coordinate_terms: shut up, ;, freeze up
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  8. (1930s US slang) To stop talking or drop a topic. Synonyms: shut up, clam up
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (to become dry): thaj (Albanian), ter (Albanian), agortu (Basque), изсъхвам (izsǎhvam) (Bulgarian), deseha (Cornish), desegha (Cornish), desygha [Kernewek-Kemmyn] (Cornish), opdrogen (Dutch), kuivua (Finnish), austrocknen (German), vertrocknen (German), verdorren (German), versiegen (note: of a spring) (German), 𐌲𐌰𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍃𐌽𐌰𐌽 (gaþaursnan) (Gothic), ky (Lutuv), قورومق (kurumak) (Ottoman Turkish), wyczerpywać [imperfective] (Polish), wyczerpać [perfective] (Polish), se usca (Romanian), शुष्यति (śuṣyati) (Sanskrit), sina (Swedish), kurumak (Turkish), 𐎃𐎗𐎁 (ḫrb) (Ugaritic), قۇرۇماق (qurumaq) (Uyghur)
Disambiguation of 'to become dry': 42 47 4 0 2 1 1 2

Inflected forms

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      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "podsuszać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to cause to become dry",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "podsuszyć"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "to cause to become dry",
      "word": "usca"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "to cause to become dry",
      "word": "kurutmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "to cause to become dry",
      "word": "kurulamak"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "lang_code": "ug",
      "roman": "qurutmaq",
      "sense": "to cause to become dry",
      "word": "قۇرۇتماق"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dry up"
}

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