DRY UP Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

dry up

verb

Definition of dry up

as in to quiet (down)

to stop talking sick of her constant complaining, he angrily told her to dry up

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Recent Examples of dry up The afternoon should dry up a bit more, but the breezy winds and clouds linger. — Joseph Dames, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026 But the payments dried up in March 2026, and by April, MGM Excavating was off the job and owed nearly $4 million, much of which was earmarked for its subcontractors. — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2026 That's because New Mexico has been hammered by persistent drought, and large swaths of the Rio Grande have dried up in the central part of the state. — ABC News, 26 Aug. 2026 But Whatley needs to show signs of viability and momentum to prevent national money and support that could provide a late boost to him and other North Carolina Republicans from drying up, Chris Cooper said. — Charlotte Observer, 25 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dry up

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Nelson remembers hushing her foster children back to sleep that night and calling 911, anxious for an end to those sleepless nights.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026
Salesforce has clearly hushed the skeptics on Wednesday night.

— Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of hush

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Ted Cruz tells moderate Republicans to 'shut up' and support PaxtonNeed a news break?

— Sameen Chaudhry, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Commentators hungry for superstar validation of their culture war were calling her silence a moral failure, and some of them were the same people who, in previous news cycles, had insisted that athletes needed to shut up.

— Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of shut up

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The Senate can pipe down; Atlantic Trivia players are the world’s greatest deliberative body.

— Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
Since becoming mayor, though, Mamdani has piped down publicly on his calls for the freeze in order to avoid the appearance of compromising the board’s independence.

— Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 25 June 2026

Definition of pipe down

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