dry up

Verb

 * 1)  To become dry (often of weather); to lose water.
 * I'll go shopping when it dries up.
 * Last summer the lake completely dried up.
 * 1)  To cause to become dry.
 * The heatwave dried up all the rivers.
 * 1)  To manually dry dishes and utensils.
 * I'll dry up if you wash up.
 * 1)  To deprive someone of (something vital).
 * The bankruptcy rumor dried up his sales.
 * 1)  To cease to exist; to disappear
 * When our money dried up, we had to get proper jobs.
 * 1)  To stop talking; to forget what one was going to say.
 * This surprised me so much that I dried up for a moment.
 * 1)  To shut up or to drop a topic.
 * Oh, dry up, you old fuddy-duddy!
 * 1)  To shut up or to drop a topic.
 * Oh, dry up, you old fuddy-duddy!
 * Oh, dry up, you old fuddy-duddy!

Usage notes

 * dry out refers to losing excess water, while dry up is used for losing constituent water (desiccate)

Translations

 * Basque: agortu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Cornish: deseha, desegha, desygha
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, , ,
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍃𐌽𐌰𐌽
 * Romanian: se usca
 * Sanskrit:
 * Swedish:
 * Ugaritic: 𐎃𐎗𐎁


 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Polish: podsuszać, podsuszyć
 * Romanian: