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Verb: dry up
  1. Lose water or moisture
    "In the desert, you get dried up very quickly";
    - exsiccate, dehydrate, desiccate
     
  2. Dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture
    "a dried up body was found";
    - mummify

Derived forms: dried up, drying up, dries up

Type of: dry, dry out, shrink, shrivel, shrivel up, wither

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