English-German translations for dry up

• austrocknen
  Sie bedeutet, dass wir Steueroasen, in die Gelder aus Entwicklungsländern abfließen, austrocknen müssen. It means that we must dry up streams of money that flow from developing countries into tax havens.
  Wenn wir uns wirklich zum Narren machen wollen, dann können wir ja die einheimischen Schamanen anrufen, dass sie die Flüsse austrocknen und die Victoria-Fälle verschwinden lassen sollen. If we really wish to make fools of ourselves, we can call on the local shamans to dry up the rivers and make the Victoria falls disappear.
• dehydrieren
• versiegen
  . (FR) In einer Welt sich öffnender Grenzen wird der Strom der Flüchtlinge nicht so bald versiegen. In a world of increasingly open borders, the flood of refugees is not about to dry up.
  Natürlich müssen die Patienten im Norden, das heißt in den Industriestaaten, einen hohen Preis bezahlen, sonst werden die Finanzquellen für die Forschung schnell versiegen. Clearly, patients in the North, that is to say in the industrialised countries, must pay a high price, otherwise the sources of funding for research will dry up quickly enough.

Definition of dry up

• To become dry ; to lose water
• To cause to become dry
• To manually dry dishes
• To deprive someone of (something vital
• To cease to exist; to disappear
• To stop talking; to forget what one was going to say

Examples

• Ill go shopping when it dries up.
• Last summer the lake completely dried up.
• The heatwave dried up all the rivers
• Ill dry up if you wash up.
• The bankruptcy rumor dried up his sales.
• When our money dried up, we had to get proper jobs.
• This surprised me so much that I dried up for a moment.

Related words

• dry
• dryad
• laundry
• heraldry
• sundry
• husbandry
• foundry
• tawdry
• dryish
• blowdryer