intransitive. To dry up; to become dry or withered; to perish. Also figurative.

Of water or moisture: To disappear or pass away by evaporation, absorption, or draining.

to dry up. transitive. intransitive. Of water or moisture: To disappear entirely as by evaporation. Of a source: To cease to yield liquid, to become…

intransitive. To shrink, shrivel, esp. with age or heat; to dry up. Also with in. Also figurative.

intransitive for reflexive. To dry up, lose all moisture.