dry
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: drier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: dryer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: driest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dryest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: drie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: drys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: dries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: drying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dried
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: dry
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: dry
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: dried
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: dry
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: driest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: dried
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: dries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: drieth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: dried
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: dry
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: dried
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: dry
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: dried
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: dry
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: drying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: drie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Free from or lacking moisture.
pos: adj
examples: This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?
The weather, […] we […] both agreed, was too dry for the season.
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.
Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.
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.
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.
gloss: Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
pos: adj
examples: This well is as dry as that cow.
gloss: Built without or lacking mortar.
pos: adj
examples: [A]lready the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.
gloss: Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
pos: adj
examples: Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
gloss: Athirst, eager.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: 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.
gloss: Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
pos: adj
examples: Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.
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[…]
gloss: Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
pos: adj
examples: You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.
gloss: Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly
pos: adj
examples: These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament.
gloss: Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
pos: adj
examples: Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.
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.
gloss: Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
pos: adj
examples: Steven Wright has a deadpan delivery, Norm Macdonald has a dry sense of humor, and Oscar Wilde had a dry wit.
gloss: Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
pos: adj
examples: a dry academic discipline turned into a living subject
A dry lecture may require the professor to bring a water gun in order to keep the students' attention.
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 […]
Mr. Evans naturally does not see things in a dry light. He has the dramatic instinct, and impresses it on all he touches.
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.
gloss: Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
pos: adj
examples: 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!.
gloss: Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
pos: adj
gloss: Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
pos: adj
examples: This fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.
gloss: Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
gloss: Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
pos: adj
gloss: Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
pos: adj
examples: never dry fire a bow
dry humping her girlfriend
making a dry run
dry snitches are as bad as regular snitches
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.
[…] most like "dry firing," or a dry release, wherein the string meets no resistance.
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, […]
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 […]
gloss: Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
pos: adj
examples: dry bite
gloss: In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
pos: adj
examples: Things are dry right now. We're hoping business'll pick up next month.
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
gloss: Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
pos: adj
gloss: Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
pos: adj
tags: Malaysia
Singapore
examples: 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.
gloss: The process by which something is dried.
pos: noun
examples: This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.
gloss: A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.
gloss: An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
pos: noun
examples: Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.
gloss: The dry season.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
with-definite-article
examples: […] one was sodden to the bone and mildewed to the marrow and moved to pray […] for that which formerly he had cursed—the Dry! the good old Dry—when the grasses yellowed, browned, dried to tinder, burst into spontaneous flame— […]
[T]he spring-fed river systems. Not the useless little tributary jutting off into a mud hole at the end of the Dry.
gloss: An area of waterless country.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
pos: noun
examples: All day, all night you feel as if the Earth could fly/Three more all for fine Indian Gin and whiskey dry.
Can you buy dry ginger in Croatia? If not what is an alternative?
Black Douglas Blended Scotch and Dry Case 24 x 375mL Cans (Title).
gloss: A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: To lose moisture.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The clothes dried on the line.
The fruit dried in the dehydrator.
gloss: To remove moisture from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
We dried the fruit in the dehydrator.
gloss: To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: For an actor to forget their lines while performing.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: An actor never stumbled over his lines, he “fluffed”; he never forgot his dialogue, he “dried.”
In one of the previews I dried (lost my lines) in my opening scene, 1.4, and had to improvise.
Blinded to the astonishment of a thousand spectators by the force of the footlights, [Derek] Jacobi realised he'd dried. Dried completely. It wasn't like he'd forgotten the words. It was like he'd never known them.
Synonyms: anhydrous
arid
bone dry
droughty
dry
dry as a bone
exsuccous
parched
sare
sear
sere
unmoist
waterless
Antonyms: wet
Related words: desiccant
desiccate
desiccation
Derived words: active dry yeast
adry
air-dry
airdry
air dry
bleed dry
blow-dry
blow dry
bone dry
bone-dry
damp-dry
drily
driness
drip-dry
dry abscess
dry-aged
dry agent
dry as a bone
dry as a dead dingo's donga
dry as a dead dingo's donger
dry as a nun's cunt
dry as a nun's nasty
dry as dust
drybag
dry bar
dry bay
dry beat
dry behind the ears
dry beriberi
dry biscuit
dry bite
dry blower
dry bob
dry bone
dry bread
drybrush
dry brushing
dry-bulb temperature
dry bulb temperature
dry cell
dry cell battery
Dry Chaco
dry chemical
dry-clean
dry clean
dry cleaner
dry-cleaner
dry cleaner's
dry-cleaning
dry cleaning
dry closet
dry cough
Dry Creek
dry creek
dry cupping
dry-cure
dry-cured
dry distillation
drydock
dry-dock
dry dock
Dry Doddington
dry drunk
dry-erase
dry erase
dry eye
dry-eyed
dry eye syndrome
dryfat
dry film thickness
dry-fire
dry fire
dry-fisted
dry fly
dry fog
dry food
dry-foot
Dry Fork
dry-fry
dry ginger
dry goods
dry guillotine
dry-gulch
drygulcher
dry-handed
dry haze
dry heater
dry-heave
dry hire
dry hole
dry hop
dry-hopped
dry hopping
dry humor
dry humour
dry hump
dry hydrant
dry ice
dryish
Dry January
dry jogger
dry joggers
dry-labber
dry-labbing
dry labbing
dry-lab
dry lab
dry lake
dry land
dryland
dry lease
dry light
dry lightning
dryline
dry line
dry lodging
dry lunch
dryly
dry marker
dry market
dry martini
dry mass
dry matter
dry measure
dry meter
dry mouth
dry needling
dryness
dry nurse
dry-nurse
dry off
dry orgasm
dry pail
dry pailing
drypainting
Dry Plain
dry plate
dry point
drypoint
dry pond
dry port
dry pot
dry powder
dry powder inhaler
dry razor
dry reach
dry rent
dry riser
dry rot
dry-rot
dry-run
dry run
dry-salt
drysalter
dry sausage
dryscape
dry season
dry sex
dry shaver
dry shaving
dry-shod
dry shower
dryside
dry sink
dry snitch
dry socket
dry spell
dry sprinkler
drystack
dry steering
dry stone
drystone
dry-stone
dry stone wall
dry stove
drysuit
dry sump
dry tech
dryth
dry-tool
dry transfer
dry valley
Dry Valley
dry vomit
drywall
dry wall
dry-wall
dry wash
dry weight
dry well
drywipe
feet dry
fluff-dry
freeze-dry
hang out to dry
high and dry
home and dry
ink isn't dry on
in the green tree … in the dry
keep one's powder dry
keep the powder dry
line-dry
medium dry
Mexican dry soup
off-dry
on the dry
roughdry
run like a dry creek
self-dry
semidry
smoke-dry
spin-dry
spray-dry
stay-dry
suck dry
sun-dry
superdry
the ink was not even dry
touch-dry
traditional dry red
tumble dry
tumble-dry
ultradry
undry
watch paint dry
wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer
you don't miss the water till the well runs dry
you never miss the water till the well runs dry
you never miss the water until the well runs dry
before the ink had time to dry
before the ink was dry
drier
dryable
drydown
dryer
drying agent
drying height
drying machine
drying oil
drying time
drying-up
dry one's eyes
dry out
dry up
fordry
freeze-drying
nondrying
overdry
quick-drying
redry
self-drying
updry
wind-dry
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: droog
lang: Finnish
word: kuiva
lang: Finnish
word: alkoholiton
lang: German
word: trocken
lang: Greek
word: στεγνός
roman: stegnós
lang: Swedish
word: torrlagd
lang: Swedish
word: vit
lang: Arabic
word: يَبَّسَ
roman: yabbasa
lang: Arabic
word: جَفَّفَ
roman: jaffafa
lang: Arabic
word: نَشَّف
roman: naššaf
lang: Arabic
word: جَفَّف
roman: jaffaf
lang: Armenian
word: չորացնել
roman: čʻoracʻnel
lang: Aromanian
word: usãc
lang: Aromanian
word: sec
lang: Aromanian
word: vintur
lang: Aromanian
word: zvintu
lang: Asturian
word: secar
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qurutmaq
lang: Basque
word: agortu
lang: Bulgarian
word: суша
roman: suša
lang: Bulgarian
word: изсушавам
roman: izsušavam
lang: Catalan
word: eixugar
lang: Catalan
word: assecar
lang: Cebuano
word: uga
lang: Chickasaw
word: shilili
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 乾燥 /干燥
roman: gānzào
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 乾 /干
roman: gān
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: hwaniha
lang: Danish
word: tørre
lang: Dutch
word: drogen
lang: Esperanto
word: sekigi
lang: Estonian
word: kuivatama
lang: Finnish
word: kuivata
lang: Finnish
word: kuivattaa
lang: French
word: sécher
lang: French
word: faire sécher
lang: Friulian
word: suiâ
lang: Friulian
word: sujâ
lang: Friulian
word: secjâ
lang: Friulian
word: sečhâ
lang: Galician
word: enxugar
lang: Galician
word: secar
lang: Gallurese
word: ascinà
lang: German
word: trocknen
lang: German
word: abtrocknen
lang: German
word: abdroggne
lang: German
word: abdroggle
lang: Greek
word: στεγνώνω
roman: stegnóno
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ξηραίνω
roman: xēraínō
lang: Hebrew
word: ייבש
lang: Hebrew
word: יִבֵּשׁ
roman: yibésh
lang: Hungarian
word: szárít
lang: Icelandic
word: þurrka
lang: Indonesian
word: kering
lang: Irish
word: triomaigh
lang: Italian
word: asciugare
lang: Italian
word: seccare
lang: Japanese
word: 乾かす
roman: kawakasu
lang: Khmer
word: ស្ងួត
roman: sŋuət
lang: Korean
word: 말리다
roman: mallida
lang: Central Kurdish
word: وشک کردن
roman: wişk kirdin
lang: Latin
word: sicco
lang: Latin
word: exsuco
lang: Latvian
word: žāvēt
lang: Lithuanian
word: džiovinti
lang: Lombard
word: sugà
lang: Luxembourgish
word: dréchnen
lang: Maguindanao
word: gangu
lang: Malayalam
word: ഉണക്കുക
roman: uṇakkuka
lang: Mansaka
word: burad
lang: Māori
word: tauraki
lang: Māori
word: whakamaroke
lang: Māori
word: rangirangi
lang: Megleno-Romanian
word: usc
lang: Mongolian
word: хатаах
roman: xataax
lang: Norman
word: s'tchi
lang: Norwegian
word: tørke
lang: Occitan
word: secar
lang: Piedmontese
word: sué
lang: Polish
word: suszyć
lang: Polish
word: osuszać
lang: Polish
word: wysuszyć
lang: Portuguese
word: secar
lang: Portuguese
word: enxugar
lang: Quechua
word: ch'akichiy
lang: Romanian
word: usca
lang: Romanian
word: zvânta
lang: Romanian
word: zbici
lang: Romansh
word: segar
lang: Romansh
word: seccar
lang: Romansh
word: secher
lang: Romansh
word: sechar
lang: Russian
word: суши́ть
roman: sušítʹ
lang: Russian
word: вы́сушить
roman: výsušitʹ
lang: Russian
word: вытира́ть
roman: vytirátʹ
lang: Russian
word: вы́тереть
roman: výteretʹ
lang: Sanskrit
word: शोषयति
roman: śoṣayati
lang: Campidanese Sardinian
word: asciuttare
lang: Sardinian
word: asciuttare
lang: Sassarese
word: asciuttà
lang: Shor
word: қурударға
lang: Sicilian
word: nsiccumari
lang: Sicilian
word: nziccumari
lang: Sicilian
word: siccari
lang: Sikkimese
word: སྐམས
roman: skams
lang: Spanish
word: secar
lang: Spanish
word: enjugar
lang: Swedish
word: torka
lang: Tagalog
word: tuyuin
lang: Tagalog
word: magpatuyo
lang: Telugu
word: ఆరబెట్టు
roman: ārabeṭṭu
lang: Turkish
word: kurutmak
lang: Turkish
word: kurulamak
lang: Ukrainian
word: суши́ти
roman: sušýty
lang: Ukrainian
word: посуши́ти
roman: posušýty
lang: Ukrainian
word: вису́шувати
roman: vysúšuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: ви́сушити
roman: výsušyty
lang: Ukrainian
word: просу́шувати
roman: prosúšuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: просуши́ти
roman: prosušýty
lang: Uyghur
word: قۇرۇتماق
roman: qurutmaq
lang: Venetan
word: secar
lang: Vietnamese
word: sấy
lang: Vietnamese
word: hong
lang: Welsh
word: sychu
lang: Yiddish
word: טריקענען
roman: trikenen
lang: Zazaki
word: wısk kerden