dry
/ˈdɹaɪ̯/ adjective A1- 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, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) 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
Comparative drier · Superlative driest
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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And cut it down to dry.
Of the double moats which had guarded its more warlike predecessor, the outer had been allowed to dry up, and served the humble function of a kitchen garden.
A little way off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between green banks, and murmuring in a voice very grateful to a little girl who had lived so long on the dry, gray prairies.
Take plenty of hot water, and be sure you dry them well.
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