slovo | definícia |
dry up (encz) | dry up,schnout v: Zdeněk Brož |
dry up (encz) | dry up,uschnout v: Zdeněk Brož |
dry up (encz) | dry up,usychat v: Zdeněk Brož |
dry up (encz) | dry up,vyschnout v: Zdeněk Brož |
dry up (encz) | dry up,vysušovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
dry up (encz) | dry up,vysychat v: Zdeněk Brož |
dry up (wn) | dry up
v 1: lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated
very quickly" [syn: exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up,
desiccate] [ant: hydrate]
2: dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture; "a
mummified body was found" [syn: mummify, dry up] |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
To dry up (gcide) | Dry \Dry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dried; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drying.] [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See Dry,
a.]
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.
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To dry up.
(a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of
water; to consume.
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Their honorable men are famished, and their
multitude dried up with thirst. -- Is. v. 13.
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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.
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Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett
(Thucyd. )
To dry a cow, or To dry up a cow, to cause a cow to cease
secreting milk. --Tylor.
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To dry up a cow (gcide) | Dry \Dry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dried; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drying.] [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See Dry,
a.]
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.
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To dry up.
(a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of
water; to consume.
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Their honorable men are famished, and their
multitude dried up with thirst. -- Is. v. 13.
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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.
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Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett
(Thucyd. )
To dry a cow, or To dry up a cow, to cause a cow to cease
secreting milk. --Tylor.
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