dry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: drī
ipa: /dɹaɪ/
ipa: [d͡ʒɹaɪ̯]
ipa: [d̠͡ɹ̠˔aɪ̯]
ipa: [d̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷaɪ̯]
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: drier
form: dryer
form: driest
form: dryest
form: drie
Etymology: Adjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old English drȳġe (“dry; parched, withered”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgī, *draugī, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz (“dry, hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”). The verb derives from Middle English drien, from Old English drȳġan (“to dry”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgijan, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz (“hard, desiccated, dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“strong, hard, solid”).
cognates and related terms
 Cognate with Scots dry, drey (“dry”), North Frisian drüg, driig, Saterland Frisian druuch (“dry”), West Frisian droech (“dry”), Dutch droog (“dry”), Low German dröög (“dry”), German dröge (“dull”), Icelandic draugur (“a dry log”). Related also to German trocken (“dry”), West Frisian drege (“long-lasting”), Danish drøj (“tough”), Swedish dryg (“lasting, hard”), Icelandic drjúgur (“ample, long”), Latin firmus (“strong, firm, stable, durable”). See also drought, drain, dree.
Senses: examples: text: This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?
text: The weather, […] we […] both agreed, was too dry for the season.
ref: 2025 December 4 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 22. Thursday, March 5. [1716.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:
text: The marjorum stood in ruddy and fragrant masses; harebells and campanulas of several kinds, that are cultivated in our gardens, with bells large and clear; crimson pinks; the Michaelmas daisy; a plant with a thin, radiated yellow flower, of the character of an aster; a centaurea of a light purple, handsomer than any English one; a thistle in the dryest places, resembling an eryngo, with a thick, bushy top; mulleins, yellow and white; the wild mignonnette, and the white convolvulus; and clematis festooning the bushes, recalled the flowery fields and lanes of England, and yet told us that we were not there.
ref: 1850, Harper's Magazine, volume 1, page 449:
text: Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.
ref: 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:
text: The project poses exceptional challenges, given that Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest continent on Earth, as well as the most remote and inaccessible, being almost totally covered by a vast ice sheet.
ref: 2019 September 26, Gianluca Mezzofiore, “Wanted: A design team for a building project at Earth’s most remote location – Antarctica”, in CNN:
text: It is one of the first towns in the United States to purposely stall growth for want of water in a new era of megadroughts. But it could be a harbinger of things to come in a hotter, drier West. […] Experts say the smallest towns are especially vulnerable. And few places in Utah are as tiny or dry as Echo, a jumble of homes squeezed between a freight railroad and stunning red-rock cliffs.
ref: 2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2021:
glosses: Free from or lacking moisture.
examples: text: This well is as dry as that cow.
glosses: Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
examples: text: [A]lready the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.
ref: 1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “The Gathering of the Clouds”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published February 1966 (August 1967 printing), →OCLC, page 247:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: Built without or lacking mortar.
examples: text: Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
examples: text: Prospero:[…]Confederates / (ſo drie he was for Sway) with King of Naples / To giue him Annuall tribute, doe him homage / Subiect his Coronet, to his Crowne and bend / The Dukedom yet vnbow'd (alas poore Millaine) / To moſt ignoble ſtooping.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Athirst, eager.
examples: text: Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.
text: Ol. Go too, y'are a dry foole: Ile no more of you: besides you grow dis-honest.
Clo. Two faults Madona, that drinke & good counsell wil amend: for giue the dry foole drink, then is the foole not dry[…]
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
glosses: Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
examples: text: You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.
topics: law
glosses: Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
examples: text: These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament.
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly
examples: text: Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.
text: Fatima Blush: Oh, how reckless of me. I made you all wet.
James Bond: Yes, but my martini is still dry. My name is James.
ref: 1983, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Never Say Never Again:
glosses: Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
qualifier: wine and other alcoholic beverages; ginger ale; wine and other alcoholic beverages; ginger ale
examples: text: Steven Wright has a deadpan delivery, Norm Macdonald has a dry sense of humor, and Oscar Wilde had a dry wit.
glosses: Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
Amusing without showing amusement.
qualifier: humor
examples: text: A dry lecture may require the professor to bring a water gun in order to keep the students' attention.
text: Ol. Go too, y'are a dry foole: Ile no more of you: besides you grow dis-honest.
Clo. Two faults Madona, that drinke & good counsell wil amend: for giue the dry foole drink, then is the foole not dry […]
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
text: Mr. Evans naturally does not see things in a dry light. He has the dramatic instinct, and impresses it on all he touches.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 2:
text: But there we were given only the dullest, driest, pemmicanised forms like The Student's Hume, Once I had a hundred pages of The Student's Hume as a holiday task.
ref: 2012, Winston S. Churchill, Martin Gilbert, Churchill: The Power of Words, page 14:
glosses: Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
Lacking interest, boring.
examples: text: 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!.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
glosses: Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
qualifier: fine arts
examples: text: This fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
topics: sciences
glosses: Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
glosses: Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
raw_tags: of a sound recording
examples: text: never dry fire a bow
text: dry humping her girlfriend
text: making a dry run
text: dry snitches are as bad as regular snitches
text: A loose nocking point is equally dangerous since it may result in what is known as a 'dry release' when the arrow merely falls from a string a few feet away as the bow is shot. This may distort or weaken the bow.
ref: 1958, Gordon Grimley, The Book of the Bow, page 167:
text: […] most like "dry firing," or a dry release, wherein the string meets no resistance.
ref: 1992, Pennsylvania Game News, volume 63, page 57:
text: When you shoot a bow, the arrow absorbs a high percentage of the energy released by the limbs. If you dry fire a bow (shoot it with no arrow on the string), the bow itself absorbs all the energy, […]
ref: 1992, Dwight R. Schuh, Bowhunter's Encyclopedia, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 81:
text: Because some recipes require specific techniques such as high-intensity dry heating (heating while the pot is empty or heating with little or no fluid inside), read the manufacturer's instructions to ensure your vessel can handle such cooking […]
ref: 2015, Naoko Takei Moore, Kyle Connaughton, Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
examples: text: dry bite
glosses: Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
examples: text: Things are dry right now. We're hoping business'll pick up next month.
text: Fa la la la
Fa la la lee
Now let me go, my honey oh
back to Tennessee
It's beefsteak when I'm workin,
whiskey when I'm dry, and
sweet heaven when I die
ref: 2011, Gillian Welch, “Tennessee”, in The Harrow & the Harvest, performed by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings:
glosses: In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
topics: Christianity
glosses: Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
examples: text: I would have mee tai mak (short, thick noodles), either in soup or dry, with fishballs, pork balls or yong tau foo at this noodles shop near my house.
ref: 2006 July 30, Teo Pau Lin, quoting Wong Hon Mun, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, page L28:
glosses: Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
raw_tags: of noodles
Synonyms: sense: free from alcoholic beverages
word: sober
word: anhydrous
word: arid
word: bone dry
word: droughty
word: dry
word: dry as a bone
word: exsuccous
word: parched
word: sare
word: sear
word: sere
word: unmoist
word: waterless
Hyponyms: word: chappy
word: crisp
word: dehydrated
word: desiccated
word: dry as a dead dingo's donger
word: dry as a nun's nasty
word: secco
word: torrid
word: windburned
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from dry (adjective)
word: active dry yeast
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word: adry
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word: air-dry
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word: airdry
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word: air dry
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word: bleed dry
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word: blow-dry
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word: blow dry
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word: bone dry
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word: bone-dry
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word: damp-dry
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word: drily
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word: driness
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word: drip-dry
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word: dry abscess
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word: dry-aged
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word: dry agent
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word: dry as a bone
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word: dry as a dead dingo's donga
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word: dry as a dead dingo's donger
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word: dry as a nun's cunt
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word: dry as a nun's nasty
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word: dry as dust
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word: drybag
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word: dry bar
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word: dry bay
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word: dry beat
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word: dry behind the ears
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word: dry beriberi
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word: dry biscuit
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word: dry bite
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word: dry blower
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word: dry bob
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word: dry bone
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word: dry bread
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word: drybrush
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word: dry brushing
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word: dry-bulb temperature
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word: dry bulb temperature
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word: dry cell
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word: dry cell battery
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word: Dry Chaco
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word: dry chemical
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word: dry-clean
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word: dry clean
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word: dry cleaner
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word: dry-cleaner
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word: dry cleaner's
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word: dry-cleaning
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word: dry cleaning
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word: dry closet
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word: dry cough
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word: dry cupping
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word: dry-cure
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word: dry-cured
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word: dry distillation
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word: drydock
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word: dry-dock
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word: dry dock
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word: dry drunk
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word: dry-erase
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word: dry erase
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word: dry eye
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word: dry-eyed
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word: dry eye syndrome
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word: dryfat
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word: dry film thickness
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word: dry-fire
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word: dry fire
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word: dry-fisted
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word: dry fly
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word: dry fog
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word: dry-foot
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word: Dry Fork
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word: dry-fry
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word: dry ginger
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word: dry goods
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word: dry guillotine
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word: dry-gulch
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word: drygulcher
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word: dry-handed
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word: dry haze
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word: dry heater
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word: dry-heave
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word: dry hire
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word: dry hole
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word: dry hop
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word: dry-hopped
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word: dry hopping
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word: dry humor
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word: dry humour
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word: dry hump
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word: dry hydrant
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word: dry ice
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word: dryish
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word: dry jogger
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word: dry joggers
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word: dry-labber
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word: dry-labbing
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word: dry labbing
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word: dry-lab
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word: dry lab
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word: dry lake
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word: dry land
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word: dryland
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word: dry lease
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word: dry light
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word: dry lightning
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word: dryline
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word: dry line
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word: dry lodging
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word: dry lunch
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word: dryly
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word: dry marker
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word: dry market
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word: dry martini
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word: dry mass
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word: dry matter
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word: dry measure
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word: dry meter
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word: dry mouth
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word: dry needling
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word: dryness
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word: dry nurse
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word: dry-nurse
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word: dry off
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word: dry orgasm
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word: dry pail
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word: dry pailing
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word: drypainting
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word: dry plate
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word: dry point
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word: drypoint
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word: dry pond
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word: dry port
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word: dry pot
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word: dry powder
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word: dry powder inhaler
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word: dry razor
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word: dry reach
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word: dry rent
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word: dry riser
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word: dry rot
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word: dry-rot
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word: dry-run
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word: dry run
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word: dry-salt
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word: drysalter
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word: dry sausage
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word: dryscape
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word: dry season
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word: dry sex
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word: dry shaver
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word: dry shaving
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word: dry-shod
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word: dry shower
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word: dryside
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word: dry sink
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word: dry snitch
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word: dry socket
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word: dry spell
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word: dry sprinkler
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word: drystack
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word: dry steering
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word: dry stone
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word: drystone
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word: dry-stone
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word: dry stone wall
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word: dry stove
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word: drysuit
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word: dry sump
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word: dryth
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word: dry-tool
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word: dry transfer
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word: dry valley
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word: Dry Valley
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word: dry vomit
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word: drywall
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word: dry wall
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word: dry-wall
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word: dry wash
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word: dry weight
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word: dry well
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word: drywipe
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word: feet dry
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word: fluff-dry
sense: Terms derived from dry (adjective)
word: freeze-dry
sense: Terms derived from dry (adjective)
word: hang out to dry
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word: high and dry
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word: home and dry
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word: ink isn't dry on
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word: in the green tree … in the dry
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word: keep one's powder dry
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word: keep the powder dry
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word: line-dry
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word: medium dry
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word: Mexican dry soup
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word: off-dry
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word: on the dry
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word: roughdry
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word: run like a dry creek
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word: self-dry
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word: semidry
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word: smoke-dry
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word: spin-dry
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word: spray-dry
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word: stay-dry
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word: suck dry
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word: sun-dry
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word: superdry
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word: the ink was not even dry
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word: touch-dry
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word: tumble dry
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word: tumble-dry
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word: ultradry
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word: undry
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word: watch paint dry
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word: wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer
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word: you don't miss the water till the well runs dry
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word: you never miss the water till the well runs dry
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word: you never miss the water until the well runs dry