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单词 to dry up
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to dry up
5. to dry up. transitive.
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a. To suck, draw, or take up (liquid or moisture) entirely, as is done by the sun or with a cloth or the like.
b. To exhaust (anything) of its moisture; to render quite dry; to desiccate. (Chiefly in passive.) Also absol. = sense 1c above.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > dry up
to dry upc1385
arefy1542
updry1559
enseara1616
the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > make into gas or produce gas from [verb (transitive)] > make into vapour > evaporate
dryc1350
to dry upc1385
consumea1398
vapour1530
exhale1589
exhalate1599
waste1639
evaporate1646
avolate1673
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Thisbe. 775 Phebus..Hadde dreyed up the dew of erbis wete.
1483 W. Caxton tr. A. Chartier Curial sig. j The grace of humanyte is not dreyed vp in the.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dryed vp to be, as a cowe or yewe that goeth gelde or foremilch and geueth no mylke.
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors v. f. 63v Chalke is an earth by heat concocted..and dried vp.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 105 In Summer it [Jordan] is almost drien up.
1669 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 3) 41 The sharp Easterly..winds transpierce, and dry them [tulips] up.
1804 Ann. Rev. 2 81/1 One fertile source of information was dried up.
1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (1874) iii. ii. 407 The amazon..had her breast dried up that she might fight the more fiercely.
1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. (1877) I. 18 Theoretic atheism dries up the sources of personal affection.
1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm vii. 92 She..flicked the reminders of dinner off the table with Adam's drying-up towel.]
1959 House & Garden Dec. 34/1 (heading) D for drying-up Essentially the masculine task.
1962 I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose ii. 28 I was just wondering if he'd mind drying up while we're at church.
1966 ‘K. Nicholson’ Hook, Line & Sinker ix. 101 He seemed preoccupied while drying-up.
c. intransitive. Of water or moisture: To disappear entirely as by evaporation. Of a source: To cease to yield liquid, to become quite dry.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > become dry [verb (intransitive)] > dry up
adroweOE
dry?c1325
to dry up1535
crine?1553
exsiccate1686
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xii. 15 Beholde, yf he witholde the waters, they drye vp.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 62 The fountaine, from the which my currant runnes, Or else dryes vp. View more context for this quotation
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. 104/1 Springs..which have dryed up.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 134 The sap dries up: the plant declines.
d. intransitive (slang or colloquial). To stop the flow of words, cease talking; also gen. to stop, cease. spec. = sense 2d above (cf. quot. 18842). Also transitive, to cause (someone) to forget his words in a play or the like.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > stop speaking
to make up one's mouthc1175
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
blina1300
dumba1300
leavea1375
to put a sock in ita1529
hush1548
silence1551
stay1551
stow1567
stop1579
to save one's breath (also wind)1605
tace1697
stubble it!1699
shut your trap!1796
to keep a calm (or quiet) sough1808
stubble your whids!1830
to shut up1840
to dry up1853
pawl1867
subside1872
to pipe down1876
to shut (one's) head, face1876
shurrup1893
to shut off1896
clam1916
dry1934
shtum1958
to oyster up1973
1853 San Francisco Comm. Advertiser 9 Dec. 2/4 She defied his Honor..and giving assurance of a disposition never to ‘dry up’, was carried down below to cool off.
1862 ‘G. Hamilton’ Country Living & Country Thinking 94 Men can talk ‘slang’. ‘Dry up’ is nowhere forbidden in the Decalogue.
1865 The Index 2 Feb. (Farmer) With which modest contribution we dry up with reference to the subject.
1884 Cornhill Mag. June 617 (Farmer) Dry up!..the slangy..exclamation with which he cuts short..attempts of his mother to lecture him.
1884 G. Moore Mummer's Wife (1887) 179 No matter how well you knew your words, you'd dry up when you got before the footlights.
1892 R. L. Stevenson Vailima Lett. (1895) xxiv. 231 The rain begins..and I will do the reverse and dry up.
1923 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. vii. 2/1 Dry a man up, to give the wrong cue, or to say something aside to disconcert a fellow-actor, and so cause him to dry up.
1928 F. S. Fitzgerald in Sat. Evening Post 21 July 8/3 ‘Oh, dry up!’ retorted Basil.
1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage iii. 34 When an actor fails to remember his lines and the scene comes to an unpremeditated stop he ‘dries up’.
1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage iii. 36 We didn't dry up! No, we kept that scene going!
1934 H. N. Rose Thes. Slang xii. 83/2 What's the idea of trying to dry me up in the last number?
1967 Times 10 May 3/8 (headline) Insurance to stop actor ‘drying up’.
1969 Listener 31 July 140/3 Why is the advertising drying up? Who has stopped (or never even started) advertising in these six?
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