belted up

verb

past tense of belt up, British
as in dried up
to stop talking the schoolboy ordered his mates to belt up about the prank

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for belted up
  1. dried up
  2. hushed
  3. piped down
  4. clammed up
Verb
  • Aquifer levels sank, lakes dried up and most of the large farming companies departed amid water restrictions in the late 1990s.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Iran has endured decades of harsh sanctions and has recently faced a full US Navy blockade of its ports that has dried up oil exports.
    — Yash Roy, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of dried up
Verb
  • Moments ago, the courtroom was hushed when the mistrial was declared, marking an emotional close for this jury in the nearly six-week trial.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Salesforce has clearly hushed the skeptics on Wednesday night.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of hushed
Verb
  • Since becoming mayor, though, Mamdani has piped down publicly on his calls for the freeze in order to avoid the appearance of compromising the board’s independence.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 25 June 2026
  • This is then piped down to the Gulf where it is turned into liquid, frozen to [less than] minus 200 degrees Fahrenheit and then put into ships.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 5 Feb. 2026
Definition of piped down
Verb
  • Anyone asked by local or national media over the past few months if they’d been invited to the nuptials clammed up quickly.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
  • On Israel, a lot of candidates have clammed up.
    — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
Definition of clammed up
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