To remove or abstract (water or moisture); to wipe away, cause to evaporate, or drain off.

to dry up. transitive. To exhaust (anything) of its moisture; to render quite dry; to desiccate. (Chiefly in passive.) Also absol. = sense 1c above.

transitive. To cause to evaporate or disappear; to disperse. Also with away. Obsolete.

transitive. With out or forth: To evaporate.

transitive. To draw up or drive off in the form of vapour; to evaporate; rarely, †to draw up (a vapour); to draw out the perfume of (e.g. a rose).

transitive. To send off as vapour; to evaporate.

To consume, use up, wear away, exhaust, diminish (a thing) by gradual loss; †to reduce in numbers (a family); †to wear out (clothes); †to sell out…

transitive. To expose or subject to evaporation; to drive off the liquid part of; to reduce by evaporation to (a residuum, a denser state). Also a…

To fly off, escape, exhale, evaporate.