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Synonyms of dry up in English:

dry up


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phrase

1‘then he dried up, and Phil couldn't get another word out of him’

SYNONYMS
stop speaking, stop talking, fall silent, say no more, shut up
forget one's lines, forget one's words
informal put a sock in it
British informal belt up

2‘foreign investment may dry up’

SYNONYMS
dwindle, wane, disappear, fail, vanish, subside, peter out, fade, fade away, die away, die off, die out, taper off, trail away, trail off, ebb, melt away, evaporate, come to nothing, come to a an end, come to a halt end, run out, give out
become unproductive, grow barren, grow sterile, cease to yield
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