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dried up and blew away

dried up and blew away is the simple past of dry up and blow away.

Meaning of dry up and blow away

Verb

dry up and blow away (third-person singular simple present dries up and blows away, present participle drying up and blowing away, simple past dried up and blew away, past participle dried up and blown away)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To go away; to disappear.
    • No-one wants to donate a large sum of hard-earned money to an agency that may dry up and blow away next year.2010, John Mutz, Katherine Murray, Fundraising For Dummies

Questions about dried up and blew away

What is dried up and blew away the simple past of?
Dried up and blew away is the simple past of dry up and blow away.

Words near dried up and blew away in the dictionary

  1. dried one's eyes
  2. dried out
  3. dried plum
  4. dried plums
  5. dried up
  6. dried up and blew away
  7. dried up and blown away
  8. dried-fish woman
  9. dried-fish women
  10. dried-up-ness
  11. driedness

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