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dry up

To cease to exist; to disappear
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When our money dried up, we had to get proper jobs.

Submitted on July 07, 2010

Additional definitions for 'dry up':

dry upTo become dry; to lose water.
dry upTo cause to become dry.
dry upTo deprive someone of.
dry upTo manually dry dishes
dry upTo stop talking, to forget what one was going to say.
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