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. Lord Byron:

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.