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Meanings of drying up in English

Portuguese
ressecação
Catalan
dessecació
Spanish
deshidratación

The process of extracting moisture.

        ressecação
        Usage of drying up in English
        1
        Production and post-production companies have already warned work is drying up rapidly.
        Radio NZ
        2
        Is this because you're afraid of work drying up at some point?
        The Guardian
        3
        With rental revenues drying up quickly, however, borrowers could default before that.
        Reuters
        4
        Water cuts are looming in pockets of the country drying up fast.
        Radio NZ
        5
        But with all visits canceled, the money is drying up, said Barra.
        Reuters
        6
        Already the food, she knew, was drying up in the warming oven.
        Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
        7
        I seem to be drying up, like a worm in the sunshine.
        Overland: A Novel
        8
        As their performance flounders, new green-fund launches in Japan are drying up.
        Reuters
        9
        The weather is now better, and the roads are drying up fast.
        Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Volume 2
        10
        And then he found that his historical sources were suddenly drying up.
        The Gods Themselves
        11
        I told Betty she knew about the store's cash flow drying up.
        Cormac: the tale of a dog gone missing
        12
        England's changing into a desert, the bogs and moors are drying up.
        Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
        13
        It can improve skin significantly by drying up the oil-producing sebaceous glands.
        Joy bauer's food cures
        14
        Creeks are drying up, wells are dropping and dams have dried out.
        Radio NZ
        15
        And take the rivers now... the rivers are drying up, for sure.
        The Witch, and Other Stories
        16
        Creek's drying up, and mosquitoes have found way to crawl under bags.
        Cabin Fever
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        New Zealand
        Common
        United States of America
        Less common
        Ireland
        Less common
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