Definition of "drying" []

• Present participle of dry. (verb)

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• "'It was what we call a drying-up, or withering of the System.'"
• "The trick to taming the 'fu, I've learned, is in drying it out."
• "In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, some manufacturers and analysts have worried about the short-term drying up of orders from Japan as it wrestles with failed communications networks and the scope of the catastrophe."