if something dries up or is dried up, all the water comes out of it
same as dry
to stop being available
to stop talking because you do not know what to say
Output of the hormone dries up completely in sufferers and they have to inject it themselves two or three times a day.
Sympathy has not completely dried up for the detainees.
The flood of unsolicited credit cards arriving through the post dried up and banks grew less liberal with credit limits.
The land had dried up and no crops would grow.
Then mortgages dried up and house prices plummeted.
What will happen to the project when the money dries up?
dries up
drying up
dried up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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