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verb

Dry v. t. (past & past part. dried; pres. part. drying) To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay.

To dry up.

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

(b)

To make to cease, as a stream of talk. "Their sources of revenue were dried up."

To dry a cow, or To dry up a cow, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... development of these much of her attention has been directed; but this restrictive system, which has so unjustly exacted the proceeds of her labor, to be bestowed on other sections, has so impaired the resources of the state, that, if not speedily arrested, it will dry up the means of education, and with it deprive her of the only source through which she can aspire to distinction. . . ...

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— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts

... short time I set out for my own home; yes, my own home, my own soil, my humble dwelling, my own family, my own hearts, my ocean of love and affection, which neither circumstances nor time can dry up. Here, like the wearied bird, let me settle down for a while, ...

— David Crockett: His Life and Adventures • John S. C. Abbott

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— The Awakening and Selected Short Stories • Kate Chopin

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