Synonyms for dry up
dry up

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1. exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up, desiccateverb

   lose water or moisture

   "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"

   Synonyms:
   mummify, desiccate, dehydrate, exsiccate

2. mummify, dry upverb

   dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture

   "a mummified body was found"

   Synonyms:
   mummify, desiccate, dehydrate, exsiccate

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1. • Dry
   • Shrivel

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1. Pamela Chisanga:

   As we move towards the dry season in the coming month or two, we will definitely be water insecure as a country, particularly when small streams and rivers dry up.

2. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov:

   Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

3. Jerald Meadows:

   So, it may be a faster dry-up than normal... a more brief period of flows than we normally see.

4. Pearl Buck:

   Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

5. John Mocadlo:

   It is getting a little bit difficult to get more because the inventory is starting to dry up after the controversy.