Dry Up

Definition: Dry Up

Dry Up

Verb

1. Lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly".

2. Dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture; "a mummified body was found".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Dry Up

Dryness

Render dry. Adjective: dry; dry up, soak up; sponge, swab, wipe; drain.

Waste

Leak; (run out); run to waste; ebb; melt away, run dry, dry up.

Crosswords: Dry Up

Dry up Dursley, you great prune! (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; writing credit: Steven Kloves)

Dry Up (1925)

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His resources dry up, his necessities mount up.

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Political Economy

POLAND

However, the number of companies to be privatized is shrinking rapidly and revenues from this source will dry up within the next few years, forcing action to curb the budget deficit to prevent the government debt ratio from approaching the constitutional limit of 60 percent of GDP. The constitution prohibits the National Bank of Poland (NBP) from financing the budget deficit. (references)

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Expressions using "dry up": To dry or dry up ♦ To dry up ♦ to dry up a cow. Additional references.

Albanian

trashet, thaj (blot, desiccate, drain, drink off, dry, exsiccate, feel cool, sap, sear, torrefy, wipe out, wither), thahet (die away, die down, drain, dry off, dry out, parch, wither), shteroj (deplete, drain, fail, give out, peter out), qep (hold one's tongue, ligature, needle, seam, sew, sew on, stitch, tab, tailor), mbyll (bung, calk, caulk, close, close up, commit, confine, crib, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, lap, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, stuff, suffuse, turn off, wind up, wrap up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خرس (dumb, muteness, mutism, quiet, silence), ‏جف (drain, dry, run dry, season). (various references)

Bulgarian 

млъквам, млъкни (shut up, stow it, turn it up, wrap up), пресушавам (drain, draw, suck dry, torrefy), изсъхвам (become peaky, become thin and hollow-cheeked, crisp, drain, dry, get dry, mummify, parch, sear, season), изчерпвам се (fail, peter out, play out, run out, wear, write out). (various references)

Chinese 

涸 (to dry, to dry up). (various references)

Czech

ztratit nit, vysušit (desiccate, drain, drain off, exsiccate, wither), vyschnout (dry, parch), mít okno. (various references)

Finnish

kuivua (become dry, dry, run dry). (various references)

French

s'assécher (dry), fermer la bouche. (various references)

German

vertrocknen (dry out, go dry, shrivel, wither), versiegen (fail, peter out, run dry), versickern (ooze away, peter out, seep away, trickle away), verlanden (silt up), austrocknen (drain, dry, dry out, parch, sear, shrivel, wither), ausdörren (bake, parch, sear, shrivel, wilt), abtrocknen (dry, dry off, to dry, to wipe, towel down, wipe). (various references)

Greek 

στερεύω. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תיבש (drain, dry, shrivel), ל�"פסיק ל�"בר, לספ�'. (various references)

Hungarian

törülget, kiszárad (become dry, become stale, get dry, grow stale, sear, to desiccate, to drain, to dry, to dry up, to run dry, to shrivel, to shrivel up, to wizen), elhallgat (fall silent, hush up, pretermit, to choke up, to dry up, to shut up, to shut up shop, to stint, to suppress). (various references)

Italian

disseccare (desiccate, parch, wither), prosciugare (ditch, drain, exhaust), inaridire (blast, parch, wither), essiccare (become dray, dehydrate, desiccate, drain, dry, exsiccate, parch, sap), asciugare (blot, dry, get dry, mop, wipe, wipe oneself, wipe up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

脩 (dried meat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅう (Chou, circuit, circumference, collection, dried meat, great number, lap, masses, province, sect, state, the people, vicinity, week). (various references)

Manx

spongey (aridity, burn up, cinder, roast, shrivel, spunk), shirgaghey (atrophy, contract, languish, mummify, perish, sear, shrivel, wilt, wither, withering), kuckley, cuckley (dry, dry off), creenaghey (ripen, wither). (various references)

Maya

sa'ap (to dry up). (various references)

Pig Latin

ydray upay

Romanian

taci din gurã (hold your jaw, shut up, shut up your mouth, stow that), seca complet, se usca (drain, parch, scorch, season), ţine-ţi gura (keep your breath tocool your porridge, shut up your mouth, stop your gab). (various references)

Russian 

высушить, высушивать (desiccate, exsiccate, parch, sear), обезводить, засохнуть (wither), пересохнуть (become dry). (various references)

Scottish

sgreubh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sparušiti (fade), presahnuti, isušiti (drain, drain off, exsiccate). (various references)

Spanish

desecar (desiccate, drain, exsiccate), secarse (die back, season, shrivel up, wipe oneself), callarse (be quiet, hold one's peace, hold one's tongue, hush, keep mum, keep quiet, pipe down, quieten, shut up). (various references)

Swedish

tystna (become silent, cease, hush, stop), torka ut (become dry, dry, dry out, exsiccate), torka disk, sina (her, one's, peter out), håll mun. (various references)

Thai

เช็�"ให้แห้ง (rub down), ทำให้แห้งผาก (dry out), หยุ�" (arrest, block, break, cease, cease from, die, dry out, nix, shut). (various references)

Turkish

sözünü unutarak duraksamak, kurutmak (air, bake, corn, cure, dehydrate, deplete, desiccate, drain, dry, exhaust, parch, scorch, sear, season, shrivel, torrefy, weather, wither), kurumak (desiccate, dry, get dry, parch, sear, season), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), kesilmek (be cut, be interrupted, become, cease, close down, clot, Curdle, die away, die down, drop, go down, go off, go sour, intermit, let up, set, shear, sour, stop, surcease, turn sour), kes (cut it out, have done, less of that), kapa çeneni (hold your jaw, none of your jaw, shut up, shut your gob, shut your mouth), çekilmek (abdicate, be pulled, bolt, bow, bow out, decline, desist, draw away, draw back, draw off, ebb, edge out, give over, go out, gravitate, opt out, quit, recede, repair, resign, retire, retract, scratch, secede, stand, step aside, step down, walk out, withdraw). (various references)

Turkmen 

зalykmak (wither). (various references)

Ukrainian

висушити, виснажитися, пересохнути. (various references)

Welsh

sychu (absorb, dry, wipe, wipe dry), crino (wither). (various references)

arefaciens, arefaciet, arefacta, arefactae, arefactum, arefecit, arescent, arescentes, arescentibus, arescet, arescit, aruerunt, aruit, detabescent, exaruit, excoquam, excoxi, exsiccabo, exsiccans, exsiccasti, exsiccat, exsiccata, exsiccati, exsiccatum, exsiccatus, exsiccavi, extabuerunt, exurens, exuret, exurit, exuserit, exusit, exusta, exustae, exustas, exustio, exustionem, exustum, tabescat, tabescebam, tabescebant, tabescens, tabescent, tabescente, tabescere, tabescerent, tabescet, tabescetis, tabescimus, tabescit, tabuerunt, torrens, torrente, torrentem, torrentes, torrenti, torrentibus, torrentis, torrentium, torreri, torres. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: updry.

-2 letters: dry, dup, pry, pud, pur, urd, yup.

-3 letters: up.

+1 letter: dupery.

+2 letters: proudly, prudery.

+3 letters: punditry, purveyed, putridly, underpay, updrying, upwardly.

+4 letters: byproduct, outprayed, prudently, prudishly, putridity, quadruply, reputedly, underpays, underplay, unsprayed.

+5 letters: byproducts, dysprosium, eurypterid, perdurably, playground, presumedly, pridefully, profoundly, profundity, purblindly, superhyped, underplays.