Synonyms for drying up
dry·ing up

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1. dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporationnoun

   the process of extracting moisture

   Synonyms:
   dehydration, vapor, evaporation, vaporisation, vaporization, vapour, desiccation

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1. • Extraction

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1. Andy Finton:

   We're seeing stressed trees that haven't had enough precipitation and are losing their leaves earlier, so leaves are withering, they're drying up, and doing that fall color change before those crisp fall nights.

2. Ernest Hemingway:

   All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

3. Lord Byron:

   The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.

4. Emily Benfer:

   Already, renters are incurring debt to stay housed, paying rent on credit cards, taking out loans, drying up what limited savings they have.

5. George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron:

   The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.