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dry up

verb

intr to become barren or unproductive; fail
in middle age his inspiration dried up
to dry (dishes, cutlery, etc) with a tea towel after they have been washed
informal.
intr to stop talking or speaking
dry up!
when I got on the stage I just dried up

A lake may dry up in one region, but a new one can form when rains fill a basin elsewhere.

If elephant, rhino, and other African wildlife are poached to extinction, tourism will dry up.

When that steady work began to dry up, Burns refused to get discouraged.

Later, manufacturing began to dry up, and local farms became attached to corporate monoliths.

At this rate, the supply of guns available may dry up well before the demand.

Past thirty all men begin to dry up or fatten, and he was certainly a lean person.

You know that I come of tough fiber—of that old Creole race of Pontelliers that dry up and finally blow away.

The rain begins softly on the iron roof, and I will do the reverse and—dry up.

Springs dry up and a luxurious, well-watered country becomes a veritable desert.

If these connections with the upper springs were to be cut off, the beautiful lake would speedily dry up and disappear.

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