DUMMY UP Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

dummy up

verb

Definition of dummy up

as in to dry up

to stop talking all of a sudden the suspect just dummied up and demanded the presence of an attorney

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That’s because New Mexico has been hammered by persistent drought, and large swaths of the Rio Grande have dried up in the central part of the state.

— Will Weissert, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
That's because New Mexico has been hammered by persistent drought, and large swaths of the Rio Grande have dried up in the central part of the state.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of dry up

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The Senate can pipe down; Atlantic Trivia players are the world’s greatest deliberative body.

— Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
Since becoming mayor, though, Mamdani has piped down publicly on his calls for the freeze in order to avoid the appearance of compromising the board’s independence.

— Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 25 June 2026

Definition of pipe down

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Commentators hungry for superstar validation of their culture war were calling her silence a moral failure, and some of them were the same people who, in previous news cycles, had insisted that athletes needed to shut up.

— Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Ferragosto on August 15 is when all Italians down tools, shut up shop, and head for the coast.

— Catherine Fairweather, Air Mail, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of shut up

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