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If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Meaning of "dry up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DRY UP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRY UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dry up is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb dry up in English.

WHAT DOES DRY UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dry up in the English dictionary

The first definition of dry up in the dictionary is to become barren or unproductive; fail. Other definition of dry up is to dry with a tea towel after they have been washed. Dry up is also to stop talking or speaking.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DRY UP

PRESENT

Present
I dry up
you dry up
he/she/it dries up
we dry up
you dry up
they dry up
Present continuous
I am drying up
you are drying up
he/she/it is drying up
we are drying up
you are drying up
they are drying up
Present perfect
I have dried up
you have dried up
he/she/it has dried up
we have dried up
you have dried up
they have dried up
Present perfect continuous
I have been drying up
you have been drying up
he/she/it has been drying up
we have been drying up
you have been drying up
they have been drying up
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I dried up
you dried up
he/she/it dried up
we dried up
you dried up
they dried up
Past continuous
I was drying up
you were drying up
he/she/it was drying up
we were drying up
you were drying up
they were drying up
Past perfect
I had dried up
you had dried up
he/she/it had dried up
we had dried up
you had dried up
they had dried up
Past perfect continuous
I had been drying up
you had been drying up
he/she/it had been drying up
we had been drying up
you had been drying up
they had been drying up
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will dry up
you will dry up
he/she/it will dry up
we will dry up
you will dry up
they will dry up
Future continuous
I will be drying up
you will be drying up
he/she/it will be drying up
we will be drying up
you will be drying up
they will be drying up
Future perfect
I will have dried up
you will have dried up
he/she/it will have dried up
we will have dried up
you will have dried up
they will have dried up
Future perfect continuous
I will have been drying up
you will have been drying up
he/she/it will have been drying up
we will have been drying up
you will have been drying up
they will have been drying up
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would dry up
you would dry up
he/she/it would dry up
we would dry up
you would dry up
they would dry up
Conditional continuous
I would be drying up
you would be drying up
he/she/it would be drying up
we would be drying up
you would be drying up
they would be drying up
Conditional perfect
I would have dry up
you would have dry up
he/she/it would have dry up
we would have dry up
you would have dry up
they would have dry up
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been drying up
you would have been drying up
he/she/it would have been drying up
we would have been drying up
you would have been drying up
they would have been drying up
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you dry up
we let´s dry up
you dry up
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to dry up
Past participle
dried up
Present Participle
drying up
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRY UP

dry hole
dry ice
dry kiln
dry land
dry law
dry lightning
dry martini
dry measure
dry nurse
dry out
dry point
dry riser
dry rot
dry run
dry shampoo
dry slope
dry steam
dry stock
Dry Tortugas
dry valley

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRY UP

buy up
cosy up
cowboy up
cry up
go belly up
gussy up
key up
lay up
marry up
pally up
pay up
play up
pony up
shinny up

Synonyms and antonyms of dry up in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dry up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRY UP

Find out the translation of dry up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dry up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dry up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

干起来
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

secar
570 millions of speakers

English

dry up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सूख
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تجف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

высыхают
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

secar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শুকানো
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

s´assécher
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

kering
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

austrocknen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

干上がる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

건조
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Garing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm thinh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உலர்த்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कोरडे झाले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kurutun
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

asciugare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wysychają
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

висихають
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

usca
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στερεύουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

opdroog
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

torka upp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tørke opp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dry up

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRY UP»

The term «dry up» is quite widely used and occupies the 54.466 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DRY UP» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dry up

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7 QUOTES WITH «DRY UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dry up.
1
Pearl S. Buck
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
2
Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
3
Ken Hill
Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
4
Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
5
Matthew Lawrence
Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.
6
William Petersen
I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.
7
Richard Selzer
If I quit surgery, I'd be afraid I'd dry up.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRY UP»

Discover the use of dry up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dry up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Lüdeling, Anke; Kytö, Merja: Corpus Linguistics
39. 40. 41. rewarding allies and punishing foes, to dry up Iraq's sources of cash and credit ears of Thatcherism. They will have to dry up liquidity in some other way,' he s been left, like a cut-off meander, to dry up because the powerful current of ...
Anke Lüdeling, Merja Kytö, 2009
2
Carmina Yalensia: A Complete and Accurate Collection of Yale ...
Then boatmen sing it loud and long, And shout the chorus stout and strong, Dry up 1 shall be the song, dry up 1 dry up 1 2 Whene'er the chapel bell is swinging And tinkling in the frosty morn, We waken with the dismal ringing, And ponder at ...
‎1867
3
Songs of Yale
As down the tide of time we're rowing, One song we'll sing with right good will ; We'll wake the echoes while we're going, And sing " Dry up !" to every ill. Then boatmen sing it loud and long, And shout the chorus stout and strong, Dry up ! shall ...
James Kittredge Lombard, Nathaniel William Taylor Root, Yale University, 1855
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Songs of Yale
As down the tide of time we're rowing, One song we'll sing with right good will ; We'll wake the echoes while we're going, And sing " Dry up I" to every ill. Then boatmen sing it loud and long, And shout the chorus stout and strong, Dry up ! shall ...
Edward Clarke Porter, 1858
5
If God Is In Control: Why Is My Life Such A Mess?
But something I have learned is that most brooks dry up at some point. Business brooks dry up. Relationship brooks dry up. Academic brooks dry up. Denominational brooks dry up. And when that happens, God says, “Don't worry, because I ...
Michael Youssef, 1998
6
Food For Life
cool & damp up & in rice (long) cold & dry up & out sweet rice warm and damp up and out wild rice cool and dry up and in barley cool and damp up and out corn cool and dry up and in buckwheat hot and dry down and in oats warm and damp  ...
Seymour Koblin
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新版ネルソン漢英辞典
3 ^f1 karabo(shi) sun-dried fish or vegetables _h hiaga(ru) dry up, parch; ebb away 5 EB Icanden dry rice field Jf£ kampi dried hides ^^ kanshoga powdered ginger ' kansei shokubutsu desert plants kanshoga powdered ginger 6 [£] hoshiniku ...
John H. Haig, 1997
8
Northern Paiute–Bannock Dictionary
AS; Var 4: F=pasa- [pasa-] kaipas.ana, nimi utlicapi Do not dry up. We will eat you . Prayer said over a green pine nut cone to assure a good harvest. [SLN/CF/ SLG] See also: ilna (dry meat, to); namabasaka (dry hands, to; towel, to); namatsia ...
‎2012
9
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Dickens, Hume Nisbet. dry as a sun-struck bone, extremely dry; dry up like a sun- struck blllabong, to become so. 'Both similes are also used figuratively; "dry” suggesting irony, and "dry up” meaning to become silent or run out of words' (B.,  ...
Eric Partridge, 2006
10
Water Resources Systems--water Availability and Global ...
Table 4 gives historical records of river dry-up in the lower reaches in the 1980s. Comparing dry-up records with the monthly natural hydrographs in Fig. 5(a), it is known that the days and extents of dry-up in a year is closely related the amount  ...
Stewart W. Franks, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRY UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dry up is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Workers lured back East as oilsands jobs dry up
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta.—An East Coast company is putting a twist on the usual job recruitment strategy, coming to Alberta's oilsands capital ... «CanadianManufacturing.com, Jul 15»
2
City to pay $1.5M for World Cup parade as sponsor funds dry up
After winning soccer's ultimate prize, the World Cup champion US women's team is being let down by corporate America. Big business has ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
3
Greek banking system on rocks as funds dry up
As Greece and its creditors make a final attempt to agree a new bailout, time is running desperately short for that country's banking system. «Irish Times, Jul 15»
4
Eradicating violent extremism from Tunisia? Dry up the sources
It will be important to empower young people, to train them to exercise critical thought, and to make them conscious of the importance of their ... «Open Democracy, Jul 15»
5
Metro Vancouver water supply continues to dry up while usage soars
Metro Vancouver reservoirs are quickly running dry and if current weather patterns continue, will follow a dangerous trajectory toward record ... «Vancity Buzz, Jul 15»
6
`Journalism as a Profession May Soon Dry Up If Sources Can Be …
“If it becomes easy to trace who all a journalist met with and spoke to, in the coming future, the profession will soon dry up,” he noted, speaking ... «NYOOOZ, Jul 15»
7
Egyptian pound falls as US dollar reserves dry up
The value of the Egyptian pound has dropped against the US dollar by 2 per cent over the past week. It lost 20 piasters of its value after the ... «Middle East Monitor, Jul 15»
8
Volunteer wouldn't let fishing derby for kids dry up
DANIEL R. PATMORE / SPECIAL TO THE COURIER & PRESS Matthew Arnold, 6, of Evansville fishes off the bridge at Garvin Park during the 26th Annual ... «Evansville Courier & Press, Jul 15»
9
Group worried long-term care funding will dry up
Concerns are deepening over funding for long-term care, despite the Legislative Yuan's passage of the highly anticipated Long-term Care ... «Taipei Times, Jul 15»
10
Services sector contracts for 2nd month as new orders dry up
NEW DELHI: Raising concerns about India's economic growth momentum, a survey today showed that the services sector contracted for the ... «Kaumudi Online, Jul 15»

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