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Dry
drʌɪ
- free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist
"the jacket kept me warm and dry"
- (of paint, ink, etc.) having lost all wetness or moisture over a period of time
"wait until the paint is dry"
- for use without liquid
"the conversion of dry latrines into the flushing type"
- with little or no rainfall or humidity
"the West Coast has had two dry winters in a row"
- (of a river, lake, or stream) empty of water as a result of lack of rainfall
"the river is always dry at this time of year"
- (of a source) not yielding a supply of water or oil
"a dry well"
- thirsty or thirst-making
"working in the hot sun is making me dry"
- (of a cow or other domestic animal) no longer producing milk
"the rye has been strip-grazed by dry cows"
- without grease or other moisturizer or lubricator
"cream conditioners for dry hair"
- (of bread or toast) without butter or other spreads
"only dry bread and water"
- (of noodles) not served in a soup, but in a sauce or with dry ingredients
"customers can choose to have their noodles in the soup or opt for a dry version"
- (of information, writing, etc.) dealing primarily with facts and presented in a dull, uninteresting way
"he not only avoids dry accounts of regimes and rulers, but enables the reader to feel how the substance of daily life has changed"
bare simple basic fundamental stark naked bald cold hard straightforward dull uninteresting boring unexciting tedious tiresome wearisome dreary monotonous dry as dust arid- unemotional, undemonstrative, or impassive
"it transformed him from a dry administrator into the people's hero"
- (of a joke or sense of humour) subtle and expressed in a matter-of-fact way
"he delighted his friends with a dry, covert sense of humour"
- prohibiting the sale or consumption of alcoholic drink
"the country is strictly dry, in accordance with Islamic law"
- (of a person) no longer addicted to or drinking alcohol
"I heard much talk about how sobriety was more than staying straight or dry"
- (of an alcoholic drink) not sweet
"a dry, medium-bodied red wine"
- relating to political ‘dries’; rigidly monetarist
- become dry
"allow 24 hours for the paint to dry"
- cause to become dry
"they had washed and dried their hair"
- wipe tears from (the eyes)
"she dried her eyes and blew her nose"
- preserve by allowing or encouraging evaporation of moisture from
"I use several methods to dry the flowers and foliage I use in my arrangements"
- forget one's lines
"a colleague of mine once dried in the middle of a scene"
- the process or an instance of drying
- a dry or covered place
- the dry season
"the grass was yellowing and the dry had started"
- a tract of waterless country
"the forty-mile dry"
- a Conservative politician (especially in the 1980s) in favour of strict monetarist policies
- a person in favour of the prohibition of alcohol
"evangelical dries had seen to it that the nearest bottle of whiskey was miles away"