to dry up

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to dry up - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Dry \Dry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dried; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Drying.] [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See Dry,
     a.]
     To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any
     kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to
     dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet
     cloth; to dry hay.
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     To dry up.
     (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of
         water; to consume.
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               Their honorable men are famished, and their
               multitude dried up with thirst.      -- Is. v. 13.
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               The water of the sea, which formerly covered it,
               was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun.
                                                    --Woodward.
     (b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk.
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               Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett
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     To dry a cow, or To dry up a cow, to cause a cow to cease
        secreting milk. --Tylor.
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