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Definition: TO DRY UP |
TO DRY UP1. (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. -- Is. v. 13. The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun. --Woodward. (b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk. Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett (Thucyd.) To dry, or dry up , a cow , to cause a cow to cease secreting milk. --Tylor. |
Crosswords: TO DRY UP |
| English words defined with "TO DRY UP": Ensear, Exsiccate. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO DRY UP": Ensear. (references) |
Expression using "TO DRY UP": to dry up a cow. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "TO DRY UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 涸 (to dry). (various references) | ||||
German | steckenbleiben (beim Vortrag). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | kiszárad (become dry, become stale, dry up, get dry, grow stale, sear, to desiccate, to drain, to dry, to run dry, to shrivel, to shrivel up, to wizen), felszárad (dry off), eltörölget, belesül (stuck, to break down, to dry up suddenly, to stick, to stick in). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 涸れる (to run out), 涸らす (to exhaust), 干上がる (to ebb away, to parch), 乾びる (to shrivel), 乾せる (to be poisoned, to scab, to slough), 乾上がる (to ebb away, to parch). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ひあがる (to ebb away, to parch), かせる (to be poisoned, to scab, to slough), かれる (to be blasted, to die, to run out, to wither), からす (crow, raven, to exhaust, to killto season, to let dry), からびる (to shrivel). (various references) | ||||
Maya | sa'ap. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay ydray upay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | a. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sicco. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-o-p-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: dorty, dropt, pouty, proud, roupy, updry. | |
-3 letters: dopy, dorp, dory, doty, dour, drop, duro, duty, port, pour, pout, prod, ropy, roup, rout, ryot, tody, tory, tour, trod, trop, troy, turd, typo, tyro, updo, your, yurt. | |
-4 letters: dor, dot, dry, duo, dup, opt, ort, oud, our, out, pod, pot, pro, pry, pud, pur, put. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-o-p-r-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: byproduct, outprayed. | |
+3 letters: byproducts, profundity. | |
+4 letters: purportedly, typefounder. | |
+5 letters: productively, productivity, typefounders. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 44 52 59 55 50 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01000100 01010010 01011001 00100000 01010101 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   D R Y   U P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0044 0052 0059 0055 0050 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449238525925550 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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