updry

English

Etymology

From up- +‎ dry.

Verb

updry (third-person singular simple present updries, present participle updrying, simple past and past participle updried)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To dry up.
   • 1851, Montagu, The Psalms, in a New Version, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches: Psalm CVI

     He the Red Sea rebuk'd also,
     That it updrying fled:
     As thro a desert dry to go,
     Them thro the deeps He led.

Anagrams

• Purdy, dry up, purdy