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Meanings of dry up in English

Catalan
dessecar-se

Lose water or moisture.

      dessecar-se
      Catalan
      momificar-se
      Spanish
      secarse

      Dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture.

            momificar-se
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            Examples for "dehydrate"
            Examples for "dehydrate"
            1
            It's very easy to dehydrate on a long and lonely training run.
            The Guardian
            2
            I wanted to dehydrate myself to minimize bladder discomfort in tomorrow's countdown.
            Riding rockets
            3
            The crowd are drinking more water than alcohol, to ensure they don't dehydrate.
            The Irish Times
            4
            The dry blowing air will dehydrate you faster, endangering your health.
            The South African
            5
            It would just give him the runs and dehydrate him more.
            Pet Sematary
            1
            The effect of that would be to desiccate the human species in human conceit.
            Marse Henry (Volume 2) / An Autobiography
            2
            These winds are hot and dry, and desiccate the vegetation, making ignition all but certain.
            Wired
            3
            Though desiccated and discolored with age, each seemed in pretty good shape.
            Bones of the Lost
            4
            Perhaps they knew themselves it was a task beyond their desiccated souls.
            The Guardian
            5
            This legal contemplation is not as desiccated as outsiders tend to imagine.
            A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
            1
            The entire wound is then covered with a dusting powder composed of zinc oxide, boric acid, exsiccated alum, phenol and camphor.
            Lameness of the Horse / Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
            Usage of dry up in English
            1
            New clients began to dry up once the credit crunch took hold.
            The Guardian
            2
            And he knows the flow of US aid could dry up soon.
            The Guardian
            3
            In the meantime, savings often dry up and desperation can set in.
            Ebony
            4
            As returns dwindle, flows of new capital dry up, and growth stalls.
            Reuters
            5
            All that would take is if for new money to dry up.
            Reuters
            6
            Such giving only serves to dry up the natural springs of charity.
            Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
            7
            It would always dry up and turn brown in a few days.
            The Bobbsey Twins in the Country
            8
            Without water nothing would grow; every thing would dry up and wither.
            New National Fourth Reader
            9
            The boats were all drawn high and dry up on the jetty.
            Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life
            10
            At the end of seven years the fountains began to dry up.
            Italian Popular Tales
            11
            The US treasury estimates that funds will dry up on 2 August.
            The Guardian
            12
            All supplies and resources dry up like winter torrents in summer heat.
            Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV
            13
            His voice seemed to wither and dry up gradually in his throat.
            Romance
            14
            Most people's records dry up as soon as the trace goes offworld.
            Altered carbon
            15
            After this his support began to dry up, and he went underground.
            Reuters
            16
            Without that trust, the intelligence that ally has shared may dry up.
            Reuters
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