dry

Plural: dries, drys

Noun

• A person who advocates for the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
• a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
• The process by which something is dried.
• A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
• An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
• The dry season.
• An area of waterless country.
• Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
• A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

Verb

Verb Forms: dried, drying, dries

• To remove moisture from something; to become dry.
• remove the moisture from and make dry
  • "dry clothes"
  • "dry hair"
• become dry or drier
  • "The laundry dries in the sun"
• To lose moisture.
• To remove moisture from.
• To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
• For an actor to forget their lines while performing.

Adjective

• Lacking moisture; free from liquid or wetness.
• free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet
  • "dry land"
  • "dry clothes"
  • "a dry climate"
  • "dry splintery boards"
  • "a dry river bed"
  • "the paint is dry"
• lacking moisture or volatile components
  • "dry paint"
• opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages
  • "the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers"
  • "a dry state"
• not producing milk
  • "a dry cow"
• (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation
  • "a dry white burgundy"
  • "a dry Bordeaux"
• without a mucous or watery discharge
  • "a dry cough"
  • "that rare thing in the wintertime; a small child with a dry nose"

Adjective Satellite

• humorously sarcastic or mocking
  • "dry humor"
• not shedding tears
  • "dry sobs"
  • "with dry eyes"
• lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless; ; ; - John Mason Brown
  • "a dry book"
  • "a dry lecture filled with trivial details"
• used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones
  • "dry weight"
• unproductive especially of the expected results
  • "a dry run"
  • "a mind dry of new ideas"
• having no adornment or coloration
  • "dry facts"
  • "rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner"
• (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish
  • "dry toast"
  • "dry meat"
• having a large proportion of strong liquor
  • "a very dry martini is almost straight gin"
• lacking warmth or emotional involvement
  • "a dry greeting"
  • "a dry reading of the lines"
  • "a dry critique"
• practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages
  • "he's been dry for ten years"

Adj

• Free from or lacking moisture.
• Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
• Built without or lacking mortar.
• Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
• Athirst, eager.
• Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
• Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
• Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly
• Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
• Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
• Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
• Amusing without showing amusement.
• Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
• Lacking interest, boring.
• Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
• Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
• Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
• Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
• Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
• Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
• Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
• Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
• Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
• Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
• Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
• Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.

Examples

• A dry lecture may require the professor to bring a water gun in order to keep the students' attention.
• After a run of bad luck, his rack felt completely DRY, devoid of any useful vowels.
• As a staunch DRY, she strictly avoided playing any words related to alcoholic drinks in Scrabble.
• Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.
• Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
• Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
• dry humping her girlfriend
• dry snitches are as bad as regular snitches
• Jake was hoping to make something good out of his suited 7-8 hand, but the flop came out dry: 2-5-10 rainbow, and all of the wrong suit!.
• making a dry run
• never dry fire a bow
• Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.
• Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.
• Sometimes you need to DRY up the board by playing out common letters, forcing tile changes.
• Steven Wright has a deadpan delivery, Norm Macdonald has a dry sense of humor, and Oscar Wilde had a dry wit.
• The clothes dried on the line.
• The fruit dried in the dehydrator.
• This fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.
• This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.
• This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?
• This well is as dry as that cow.
• We dried the fruit in the dehydrator.
• You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.

Synonyms

dry out, ironic, ironical, juiceless, prohibitionist, teetotal, wry, anhydrous, arid, bone dry, dehydrate, desiccate, droughty, dry, dry as a bone, dry up, exsuccous, parched, sare, sear, sere, sober, unmoist, waterless

Antonyms

phlegmy, sweet, wet

Related Words

desiccant, desiccate, desiccation, DRYABLE

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