dry up vs persuade

dry up

verb
  • To manually dry dishes. 

  • To cause to become dry. 

  • To deprive someone of (something vital). 

  • To cease to exist; to disappear 

  • To become dry (often of weather); to lose water. 

  • When our money dried up, we had to get proper jobs. 

  • To stop talking; to forget what one was going to say. 

persuade

verb
  • To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. 

How often have the words dry up and persuade occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )