drying up
Losing all moisture
Drying up describes the process of becoming dry or making something dry.
A lake dries up when its water evaporates or drains away.
A supply dries up when it diminishes to nothing: Funding dried up after the scandal.
In conversation, to dry up is to stop talking, often from nervousness or forgetting what to say: She dried up completely during the audition.
- shrivel upContract from moisture loss
- dehydrationExcessive fluid loss
- desiccationComplete removal of moisture
- evaporationLiquid turning to gas
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
wither · disappearing · shrink · desertification · dust bowl · sapped · tapped out · parching · exhaustion · water scarcity · water shortage · aridity · burnout · forgetting lines · cracked · riverbed · brittle · scorched
drying upwetting
Adding moisture to
soaking · saturating · moistening · flooding · drenching
drying upreplenishing
Restoring to fullness
flowing freely · pouring in · surging · proliferating · flowing
drying upspeaking freely
Talking without restraint
flowing · going on · holding forth · chattering · prattling
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