dry up

VERB
  1. dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture
    a mummified body was found
  2. lose water or moisture
    In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly
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How To Use dry up In A Sentence

  • In the spring, you will be letting the leaves wilt on their own and dry up.
  • Without these sagacities, the brickwork of the tambour, in addition to taking a very long time so that the concrete could dry up and solidify, would surely have been too heavy to support the dome.
  • On the River Darent, in Kent - which as recently as 1996 used to dry up in places during the summer, stranding and killing fish and other aquatic life - the amount taken from the river has been cut by 35m litres a day compared with 20 years ago, increasing river flows and so enabling much greater numbers of brown trout, pike and other fish to live in its waters. Rivers the healthiest in a generation due to stricter pollution controls
  • When you don't share office space with people, things like networking and exchanging information tend to dry up.
  • Dry upland forests contain blackjack oak, post oak, scarlet oak, pignut hickory, and white oak. Ecoregions of Illinois (EPA)
  • Save long stems and dry upside down for winter decoration. Times, Sunday Times
  • Without this help cancer research would dry up and the same statistics would be facing us fifty years from now.
  • Stir and wash laundry up and down with stirring pulsator.
  • Marijuana is a pistillate hemp plant that yields cannabin and DOES NOT DRY UP AFTER ITS GROWING SEASON.
  • Fresh walnuts are simply walnuts that have been recently picked from the tree, as opposed to walnuts that have been stored for a while, causing their insides to shrivel and dry up.
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