DRYING UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drying up mean? 

• DRYING UP (noun)
  The noun DRYING UP has 1 sense:

1. the process of extracting moisture

  Familiarity information: DRYING UP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRYING UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of extracting moisture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

dehydration; desiccation; drying up; evaporation

Hypernyms ("drying up" is a kind of...):

extraction (the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drying up"):

freeze-drying; lyophilisation; lyophilization (a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes)

inspissation (the process of thickening by dehydration)

Holonyms ("drying up" is a part of...):

plastination (a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened)

 Context examples 

Her bees and her crows and her wolves were lying in heaps and drying up, and she had used up all the power of the Golden Cap; but if she could only get hold of the Silver Shoes, they would give her more power than all the other things she had lost.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)