dry
/ˈdɹaɪ̯/ verb A2- To lose moisture. · The clothes dried on the line.· The fruit dried in the dehydrator.
- To remove moisture from. · Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.· We dried the fruit in the dehydrator.
- To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
- For an actor to forget their lines while performing.
Plural dry · He/she/it dries · Past dried · Past participle dried · -ing form drying
Verb forms
- Base form
- dry
- He/she/it
- dries
- Past
- dried
- Past participle
- dried
- -ing form
- drying
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“She will soon get over these things.” So saying, Madame de Saint-Méran extended her dry bony hand to Villefort, who, while imprinting a son-in-law’s respectful salute on it, looked at Renée, as much as to say, “I must try and fancy ’tis your dear hand I kiss, as it should have been.”
The Lion would have preferred a bed of dried leaves in the forest, and did not like being shut up in a room; but he had too much sense to let this worry him, so he sprang upon the bed and rolled himself up like a cat and purred himself asleep in a minute.
Take plenty of hot water, and be sure you dry them well.
“Marquise, marquise!” interposed the old nobleman who had proposed the toast, “let the young people alone; let me tell you, on one’s wedding day there are more agreeable subjects of conversation than dry politics.”
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