Английский словарь американских идиом - dry up
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Dry up
dry up
{v.} 1. To become dry. * /The reservoir dried up during the four-month drought./ 2. To disappear or vanish as if by evaporating. * /The Senator's influence dried up when he was voted out of office./ 3. {slang} To stop talking. - Often used as a command. * /"Dry up!" Tony said angrily when his friend told him for the third time that he had made a mistake in his theme./ Syn.: SHUT UP(1).
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1. If something dries up or if something dries it up, it loses all its moisture and becomes completely dry and shrivelled or hard. As the day goes on, the pollen dries up and becomes hard... Warm breezes from the South dried up the streets. PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P n (not pron), also V n P • dried-up ...a tuft or two of dried-up grass. = desiccated ADJ 2. If a river, lake, or well dries up, it becomes empty of water, usually because of hot weather and a lack of rain. Reservoirs are drying up and farmers have begun to leave their land... PHRASAL VERB: V P • dried-up ...a dried-up river bed. = dry ADJ 3. If a supply of something dries up, it stops. Investment could dry up and that could cause the economy to falter... PHRASAL VERB: V P 4. If you dry up when you are speaking, you stop in the middle of what you were saying, because you cannot think what to say next. If you ask her what she’s good at she will dry up after two minutes. PHRASAL VERB: V P 5. see dry 3 6. see also dried-up, drying up ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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verb Date: 14th century transitive verb to cut off the supply of intransitive verb 1. to disappear as if by evaporation, draining, or cutting off of a source of supply 2. to wither or die through gradual loss of vitality 3. to stop talking ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
3.
1. пересохнуть, высохнуть the well has dried up —- колодец пересох 2. высушить, обезводить to dry up a spring —- засыпать источник (родник) to dry up a pump —- выпустить воду из насоса 3. осушить to dry up land —- осушить землю 4. истощиться, иссякнуть his income dried up —- источники его доходов иссякли his ambitious projects dried up one after another —- его честолюбивые замыслы увядали один за другим 5. разг. умолкнуть, замолкнуть he dried up when father looked up at him —- он сразу умолк, когда отец взглянул на него he never dries up on the subject —- он может говорить об этом бесконечно I was slowly drying up —- запас моих тем для разговора постепенно иссякал 6. сл. заткнуться dry up! —- заткнись!, закройся! 7. театр. профес. забыть роль ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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