Synonyms for drying up
dry·ing up

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1. dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporationnoun

   the process of extracting moisture

   Synonyms:
   dehydration, vapor, evaporation, vaporisation, vaporization, vapour, desiccation

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1. • Extraction

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1. Emily Benfer:

   Already, renters are incurring debt to stay housed, paying rent on credit cards, taking out loans, drying up what limited savings they have.

2. Le Drian:

   We have to tackle the evil at the root and intensify our efforts in order to isolate terrorism by drying up their sources of financing.

3. Tobias Jones:

   For centuries, the worry was about the river flooding, but climate change has meant that Po River is now at risk of drying up, po River is not just Po River, Po River is part of the national psyche. The towns along Po River draw tourism and industry. It was almost a moat for central Italy that kept it safe from invaders. Now it is under threat and no one knows what to do to save it.

4. Bonnie Baxter:

   You’ve got the lake shrinking, the habitat is drying up and what water is remaining is too salty for (algae and microbes) to survive.

5. Ernest Hemingway:

   All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.