dry
/dɹaɪ/
Dictionary
noun
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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