drying up

1. 1.

   the process of extracting moisture

   Synonymsdehydrationdesiccationevaporation

   Broaderextraction

   Narrowerfreeze-dryinginspissation

   Part ofplastination

Questions about drying up

What does drying up mean?

drying up means "the process of extracting moisture".

What is another word for drying up?

Close synonyms include dehydration, desiccation, evaporation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drying up a common word?

drying up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.