All dry up synonyms

verb dry up

• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• impoverish — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
• sap — Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
• undermine — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
• use up — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
• stifle — to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
• suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
• censor — If someone in authority censors letters or the media, they officially examine them and cut out any information that is regarded as secret.
• choke — When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
• repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
• muffle — to wrap with something to deaden or prevent sound: to muffle drums.
• squelch — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
• clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
• scorch — to affect the color, taste, etc., of by burning slightly: The collar of the shirt was yellow where the iron had scorched it.
• depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
• tire — Archaic. to dress (the head or hair), especially with a headdress.
• lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
• go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• wilt — to exercise the will: To will is not enough, one must do.
• brand — If someone is branded as something bad, people think they are that thing.
• cauterize — If a doctor cauterizes a wound, he or she burns it with heat or with a chemical in order to close it up and prevent it from becoming infected.
• harden — to make hard or harder: to harden steel.
• cook — When you cook a meal, you prepare food for eating by heating it.
• seal — a member of the U.S. Navy’s special operations forces.
• tan — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
• clam — Clams are a kind of shellfish which can be eaten.
• dampen — To dampen something such as someone's enthusiasm or excitement means to make it less lively or intense.
• lull — to put to sleep or rest by soothing means: to lull a child by singing.
• deaden — If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
• dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• overawe — to restrain or subdue by inspiring awe; intimidate: He often uses that imperious scowl to overawe his subordinates.
• asphyxiate — If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
• stultify — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
• stagnate — to cease to run or flow, as water, air, etc.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• spike — an ear, as of wheat or other grain.
• constipate — to cause constipation in
• torpedo — a self-propelled, cigar-shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying surface vessels or other submarines.
• burke — Edmund. 1729–97, British Whig statesman, conservative political theorist, and orator, born in Ireland: defended parliamentary government and campaigned for a more liberal treatment of the American colonies; denounced the French Revolution
• collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
• mummify — to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
• flag — flagstone (def 1).
• languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
• die — When people, animals, and plants die, they stop living.
• fold — to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.
• constrict — If a part of your body, especially your throat, is constricted or if it constricts, something causes it to become narrower.
• blast — A blast is a big explosion, especially one caused by a bomb.
• preserve — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
• rebate — a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
• taper — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.