| 单词 | drying-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdrying-up The action of dry v.; abstraction of moisture; desiccation. Also with adv., as drying-up. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > making dry dryinga1398 desiccation1477 arefaction1576 exsiccation1599 siccation1617 desiccating1893 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. xxii. 838 Þe poudre of þe wheston..haþ vertue of drying. 1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 124 For wasshing and drying of ix pair of shetes. 1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 10 §1 Except the same [Malt] have in the fatt flower stepinge and sufficient drienge. 1667 H. Oldenburg in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 417 The too hasty drying thereof spoils it. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 349 The people complained bitterly of the drying up of the streams. 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Nov. 3/3 Fifty years is the period..[assigned] for the practical drying-up of the ivory supply. < as lemmas |
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