To dry up Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions

1. . (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume.

   Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Is. v. 13.

   The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun. Woodward.

   (b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk.

   Their sources of revenue were dried up. Jowett (Thucyd. )