dry up🔊

To become dry (often of weather); to lose water. +

To cause to become dry. +

To manually dry dishes and utensils. +

To deprive someone of (something vital).

To gradually decrease and eventually cease. +

To stop talking because one has forgotten what one was going to say.

(of an actor) To forget one's lines.

(1930s US slang) To stop talking or drop a topic. +