dry
Free from or lacking moisture.
Adjective 4 meanings
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.”
Noun 4 meanings
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.”
The dry season.
Verb 4 meanings
To lose moisture.
“The clothes dried on the line.”
To remove moisture from.
“Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.”
To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
For an actor to forget their lines while performing.
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”).
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DRY at a glance
DRY has 3 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (D 2 + R 1 + Y 4) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,809 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with dry
All rhymes- LAUNDRY11
- FOUNDRY14
- HUSBANDRY18
- SUNDRY10
- WIZARDRY24
- HERALDRY15
- TAWDRY13
- POLYANDRY18
- MISANDRY14
- BALLADRY14
- CUCKOLDRY21
- DRUIDRY12
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