dry up
فعل- To become dry (often of weather); to lose water. · I'll go shopping when it dries up.· Last summer the lake completely dried up.
- To cause to become dry. · The heatwave dried up all the rivers.
- To manually dry dishes and utensils. · I'll dry up if you wash up.
- To deprive someone of (something vital). · The bankruptcy rumor dried up his sales.
- To gradually decrease and eventually cease. · When our money dried up, we had to get proper jobs.· After the stock market crash, the easy financing dried up.
- To stop talking because one has forgotten what one was going to say. · This surprised me so much that I dried up for a moment.
- To forget one's lines.
- To stop talking or drop a topic. · Oh, dry up, you old fuddy-duddy!
من المكتبة
Of the double moats which had guarded its more warlike predecessor, the outer had been allowed to dry up, and served the humble function of a kitchen garden.
تعلّم dry up في نصوص حقيقية
مع حساب مجاني، مرّر المؤشر فوق أي كلمة في المكتبة لترى معناها، واستمع إليها مقروءة بصوت عالٍ، واحفظ الكلمات لمراجعتها في مواعيد تناسب ذاكرتك، واعرف مقدار ما تعرفه من كل كتاب.