drying-up en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) The act of drying dishes after they have been washed up.
I'll do the drying-up if you put it all away.
- (uncountable) ablactation
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(form-of, gerund, uncountable) gerund of dry up.
form of dry up
The drying-up of this unique and freely-given source of information will leave its mark.
1950 June, W. A. Willox, “Rawdon Edward Charlewood: An Appreciation”, in Railway Magazine, page 418: