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单词 dry up
释义 dry up
transitive verb
: to end the existence of by or as if by cutting off at the source or exhausting the supply
 < fear dried up the words — E.T.Thurston >
 < closure of the Mediterranean dried up commerce in Western Europe >
 < the finance-ministry project to dry up … their purchasing power by compulsory saving — George Axelsson >
intransitive verb
1. : to disappear as if by evaporation, absorption, or draining : become exhausted (as of a supply) : cease to exist because of the cutting off of a source of supply or of vital elements
 < without intellectual enterprise, economic enterprise dries up — H.S.Commager >
 < they are filling the vacuum left by the virtual drying up of immigration from Europe — Hal Burton >
 < is not the only one whose power of expression dries upTimes Literary Supplement >
2. : to wither or die through gradual loss of vitality
 < the skin keeps the body from drying up through evaporation of fluid — Morris Fishbein >
 < under tyranny individual men dry up for lack of spiritual exercise — Lyman Bryson >
3.
 a. : to stop talking : be at a loss for words
  < he was so surprised and angry that he just dried up >
  < “Dry up!” advised the grizzled old-timer — S.E.White >
 b. of an actor : to forget one's lines
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