Wiktionary
dries out
vb. (en-third-person singulardry out)
Usage examples of "dries out".
It loses flexibility if it dries out, but you can cut it in winter and store logs in a pool or bog for a year, even two.
Silverbark wood is reddish and dries out thoroughly after it is cut, becoming very light but also very brittle after a year or so.
That ground dries out, a whole city's worth of cement on top of it won't hold firm.
The subsurface moisture content of the soil and the rate at which it dries out after being exposed by a hoof determine how crumbly the crater walls are.
The thing was cold and rigid and the husk that was its body was rough and drying out - as a corn stalk in the field dries out, whipping in the wind once the growing had been ended.