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[dry up] {v.}
1. To become dry.
The reservoir dried up during the four-month drought.
2. To
disappear or vanish as if by evaporating.
The Senator's influence dried up
when he was voted out of office.
3. {slang} To stop talking. - Often used as a
command.
"Dry up!" Tony said angrily when his friend told him for the
third time that he had made a mistake in his theme.
Syn.: SHUT
UP (1).
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