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. Peter Chuwa:

   I was very frustrated because my crops were drying up before harvest, it reached a point where I even struggled to feed my own family.

4. Scott C. Holstad:

   we sweat through our doldrums somehow, sheer insane boredom; society can no longer focus and my poems keep drying up and blowing away.

5. Joel Kan:

   Home purchase applications continued to be held down by rapidly drying up demand, as high mortgage rates, challenging affordability, and a gloomier outlook of the economy kept buyers on the sidelines.