Wiktionary
drying out
vb. (present participle of dry out English)
Usage examples of "drying out".
The lake suffered, however, from the continued drying out of the land.
The Bull's Trench design requires dry ground, otherwise you expend heat energy drying out the ground.
Bushes and tree branches, already drying out, loosely filled in the spaces between.
She leaned forward as she said it, her lips half parted, her tongue moistened them as if she was having trouble keeping her mouth from drying out.
The pilot vaulted out and came running over, pushing back the goggles that kept eyes from freezing or drying out and pulling off her helmet.
The sun drying out the decks and the seagulls playing triumphantly round the bows seemed a reflection of this holiday mood.