All dry up synonyms

verb dry up

• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• silence — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
• dry — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
• toast — a salutation or a few words of congratulation, good wishes, appreciation, remembrance, etc., uttered immediately before drinking to a person, event, etc.
• blight — You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
• sizzle — to make a hissing sound, as in frying or burning.
• cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
• subdue — to conquer and bring into subjection: Rome subdued Gaul.
• mute — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
• quash — to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
• smother — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
• suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
• strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
• faint — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
• melt — to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
• succumb — to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair.
• cave in — If something such as a roof or a ceiling caves in, it collapses inwards.
• perish — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
• disintegrate — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
• deflate — If you deflate someone or something, you take away their confidence or make them seem less important.
• atrophy — If a muscle or other part of the body atrophies, it decreases in size or strength, often as a result of an illness.
• ebb — the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
• wane — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
• dwindle — to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• soften — to make soft or softer.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• ease — freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
• subside — to sink to a low or lower level.
• fall off — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
• drop off — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
• slash — to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
• curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
• shrink — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
• depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
• deteriorate — If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way.
• slump — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
• sink — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
• abate — If something bad or undesirable abates, it becomes much less strong or severe.
• diminish — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• cut down — If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
• lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
• slacken — If something slackens or if you slacken it, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
• drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
• lessen — to become less.
• dry out — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
• bankrupt — People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
• squander — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).