DUMMY UP Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

dummy up

verb

Definition of dummy up

as in to dry up

to stop talking all of a sudden the suspect just dummied up and demanded the presence of an attorney

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Increasingly, representational politics feels like dusty land that’s been dried up from single-crop farming.

— E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026
As the hits dried up in the 2000s, Parton turned toward the music of her youth, said Rolling Stone, recording bluegrass and gospel songs.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of dry up

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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
Nelson remembers hushing her foster children back to sleep that night and calling 911, anxious for an end to those sleepless nights.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of hush

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The Senate can pipe down; Atlantic Trivia players are the world’s greatest deliberative body.

— Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
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

Definition of pipe down

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Ted Cruz tells moderate Republicans to 'shut up' and support PaxtonNeed a news break?

— Sameen Chaudhry, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Commentators hungry for superstar validation of their culture war were calling her silence a moral failure, and some of them were the same people who, in previous news cycles, had insisted that athletes needed to shut up.

— Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of shut up

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