dry up vs wipe up

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. 

wipe up

verb
  • To dry utensils, dishes etc. that have been washed. 

  • To clean thoroughly, particularly with a dishcloth or rag. 

  • To defeat (an opponent) thoroughly; trounce. 

  • To completely remove spilled liquid or solids, typically by hand using a dishcloth. 

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