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dry

/dɹaɪ/

noun

Meaning

  • The process by which something is dried.

    "This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry."

  • A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).

  • (with "the") The dry season.

  • An area of waterless country.

  • (UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

verb

Meaning

  • To lose moisture.

    "The clothes dried on the line."

  • To remove moisture from.

    "Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief."

  • To be thirsty.

  • To exhaust; to cause to run dry.

  • For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.

adjective

Meaning

  • Free from or lacking moisture.

    "This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?"

  • Unable to produce a liquid, as water, oil, or (farming) milk.

    "This well is as dry as that cow."

  • Built without or lacking mortar.

  • Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.

    "Dry alcohol is 200 proof."

  • Athirst, eager.

  • Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.

    "Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now."

  • Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.

    "You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor."

  • Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:

  • (somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.

  • (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects.

  • Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.

    "never dry fire a bow; dry humping her girlfriend; making a dry run"

  • Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.