The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. To dry up.
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To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume.
Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. -- Is. v. 13.
The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun.
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To make to cease, as a stream of talk.
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.
Usage examples of "to dry up".
This fluid was not in the least acid, and began to dry up, or more probably was absorbed, in 5 hrs.
In truth, it turned out to be one of those problematical whales that seem to dry up and die with a sort of prodigious dyspepsia, or indigestion.
Blisters formed on their skin, while all the water in their blood seemed to dry up.
In fact, I contend that if the oceans of the Earth were to dry up and our only way of getting water was to drain it from the poles, we should do that very thing.
We must not lose touch with what we were, with what we had been, nor must we allow the well of our history to dry up, for a child without tradition is a child crippled before the world.
I'd expected my work to dry up, but I catered to those who had extra coins.