as in to quiet (down)
to stop talking
sick of her constant complaining, he angrily told her to dry up
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Recent Examples of dry up
Vazquez is worried the number of volunteers helping in the search will dry up.
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Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Strained by industrial and agricultural demand and mismanagement, and insufficiently replenished by rainfall and snow melt, three-quarters of the world's population now live in areas where the water is drying up beneath our feet.
—Kelly Parsons, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
The offers dried up, and Kell returned to San Diego to weigh his options.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
Investigators continued to work the case but leads eventually dried up, the case relegated to inactive status.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Strained by industrial and agricultural demand and mismanagement, and insufficiently replenished by rainfall and snow melt, three-quarters of the world's population now live in areas where the water is drying up beneath our feet.
—Kelly Parsons, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
The offers dried up, and Kell returned to San Diego to weigh his options.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
Investigators continued to work the case but leads eventually dried up, the case relegated to inactive status.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dry up
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The top itself is an eight-layer cloth construction that satisfyingly hushes the cabin when raised.—
Brett Berk,
Robb Report,
3 Sep. 2025
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In her first solo, Dayhuff hushed her sound over the course of the solo; the others onstage followed her.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
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Then, after Austin Jackson sustained his season-ending knee injury in early November in Miami’s loss to the Bills , the Dolphins run game clammed up.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
29 July 2025
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Although that doesn’t account for those opposite behaviors (e.g., clamming up).—
Caleb Harris,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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Meanwhile, the voices of the guys who normally can’t shut up about the sanctity of free markets and limited government, have gone quiet.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
27 Aug. 2025
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My mother was like, Savannah, shut up.—
Catherine Santino,
People.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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The compressed air is then piped down to enormous sealed salt caverns thousands of feet below the Earth's surface for long-term storage.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
30 June 2025
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At one point, crowd-surfers pulled pipes down from the ceiling.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2025
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“Dry up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dry%20up. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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