单词 | dry up |
释义 | dry up < 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. < 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 up — Times Literary Supplement > 2. < 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. < 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 |
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