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Synonyms for dry up

  • verb

Most common

wipe up wither shrivel dehydrate shut-up season mummify parch

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Wipe up — to manually dry dishes and utensils

dry, wipe up, wither, shrivel

2. Desiccate — to become dry (often of weather); to lose water

dehydrate, desiccate rare, exsiccate rare

3. Clam up — to stop talking or drop a topic

shut-up, clam up

Other

season, mummify, parch, wither away

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To become dry (often of weather); to lose water.

    I'll go shopping when it dries up.

  2. v. 2

    To manually dry dishes and utensils.

    I'll dry up if you wash up.

  3. v. 3

    To stop talking or drop a topic.

    Oh, dry up, you old fuddy-duddy!

Related words

Is a kind of
dry

Example sentences

  • wither What is left when the flowers of time wither away?
  • shrivel Your vagina is not going to shrivel up like a prune.
  • dehydrate I'm worried she'll dehydrate.
  • season In Japan, the rainy season usually begins in June.

By length

3 letters
dry1
5 letters
parch1
6 letters
season2, wither2
7 letters
shrivel2, mummify3
9 letters
dehydrate3, desiccate3, exsiccate

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (season2 = 2 syllables).