dry up
• become completely or excessively dry.
• "rivers and ponds have dried up and wildfires are raging"
• (of something perceived as a continuous flow or source) decrease and stop.
• "his commissions began to dry up"
Similar:
dwindle,
wane,
disappear,
fail,
vanish,
subside,
peter out,
fade (away),
die away/out/off,
taper off,
trail away/off,
ebb,
melt away,
evaporate,
come to nothing,
come to a halt/an end,
run out,
give out,
become unproductive,
grow barren/sterile,
cease to yield,
• stop talking.
• "then he dried up, and Phil couldn't get another word out of him"
Similar:
stop speaking/talking,
fall silent,
say no more,
shut up,
forget one's lines/words,
put a sock in it,
belt up,
