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1. dry... up p.v. When something dries up or something dries it up, all the water or other liquid in it goes away.

The sun came out and dried up all the rain. The Great Salt Lake is slowly drying up.

dried up part.adj. After all water or other liquid in something goes away, it is dried up.

The cowboys reached the river only to find that it was dried up.

These leaves will burn okay now that they're dried up.

2. dry up p.v. When the amount or supply of something gets smaller and then disappears completely, it dries up.

The factory switched to synthetic rubber after the supply of natural rubber dried up.

The small grocery store's business dried up after a huge supermarket opened across the street.

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1. fill... out p.v. When you fill out a form, you put information in the correct spaces. Fill in is the same as fill out.

The personnel director asked Sofia to fill out an application.

Fill the withdrawal slip out and give it to the teller.

filled out partadj. After all the information is in the correct spaces of a form, the form is filled out.

Here's my application; it's all filled out. Are these forms blank or filled out?

2. fill... out p.v. When slender people gain weight, they fill out.

Jake was really thin when he got out of prison, but he has really filled out since then.

Nicole started to fill out after she started working at the candy shop.