dry
/ˈdɹaɪ̯/ noun C2- The process by which something is dried. · This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.
- A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
- An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it. · Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.
- Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
Plural drys
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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And cut it down to dry.
down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life.
_I’ll_ soon make you dry enough!” They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle.
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