dry up

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To become dry (often of weather); to lose water. intransitive
    — I'll go shopping when it dries up.
  2. To cause to become dry. transitive
    — The heatwave dried up all the rivers.
  3. To manually dry dishes and utensils. ambitransitive,intransitive
    — I'll dry up if you wash up.
  4. To deprive someone of (something vital). transitive
    — The bankruptcy rumor dried up his sales.
  5. To gradually decrease and eventually cease. intransitive
    — When our money dried up, we had to get proper jobs.
  6. To stop talking because one has forgotten what one was going to say. intransitive
    — This surprised me so much that I dried up for a moment.
  7. To stop talking because one has forgotten what one was going to say.; To forget one's lines. intransitive
  8. To stop talking or drop a topic.
    — Oh, dry up, you old fuddy-duddy!

词形变化

dries up present,singular,third-person drying up participle,present dried up participle,past dried up past
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