dry up
— phrasal verb with dry uk/draɪ/us/draɪ/verb [ I or T ]
(WATER)
If a river, lake, etc. dries up, the water in it disappears.
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Dry weather, arid conditions & dryness
- arid
- aridity
- as dry as a bone idiom
- bone
- bone dry idiom
- dehydrate
- desertification
- desiccation
- dried
- dry
- dry (sth) out
- dust devil
- frazzled
- parch
- parched
- scorched
- semi-arid
- subarid
- sun-baked
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(END)
C2 If a supply of something dries up, it ends:
His main source of work had dried up, leaving him short of money.
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Coming to an end
- come off
- come off sth
- come out
- come to a full stop idiom
- come to a head idiom
- come to sth
- come to the end of the road idiom
- fizzle
- go out (of) the window idiom
- head
- land
- land up
- lapse
- let
- let up
- peter
- road
- run
- the sun sets on sth idiom
- wind up
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