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- Dictionarydry/drī/
adjective
- 1. free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist: "the jacket kept me warm and dry" Similar Opposite
- 2. (of information, writing, etc.) dealing primarily with facts and presented in a dull, uninteresting way: "he not only avoids dry accounts of regimes and rulers, but enables the reader to feel how the substance of daily life has changed" Similar Opposite
verb
- 1. become dry: "allow 24 hours for the paint to dry"
- 2. forget one's lines: theatrical slang "a colleague of mine once dried in the middle of a scene"
noun
- 1. a person in favor of the prohibition of alcohol.
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DRIES definition: present simple of dry. Learn more.
The meaning of DRY is free or relatively free from a liquid and especially water. How to use dry in a sentence.
noun. a pl. of dry. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Examples of 'dries' in a sentence. dries.
dry verb [I/T] (REMOVE WATER) to become dry, or to remove water from something : [ I ] I can’t go out until my hair dries. [ T ] The woman dried her hands on a towel and returned to the table. [ I ] If you don’t keep food covered, it dries out.
Dries Sentence Examples. It forms a dark-violet precipitate which dries to a greyish-violet powder. The sun dries the window too fast and causes more streaks. In course of time it dries up, leaving nothing but a brown scale adhering to the bottom or side of the cell.
If a river, lake, or well is dry, it is empty of water, usually because of hot weather and lack of rain. The aquifer which had once fed the wells was pronounced dry. The single-engine plane landed at a dry lake in western Arizona. In the end the Volga's waters will run dry.
free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air. Antonyms: wet. having or characterized by little or no rain: a dry climate; the dry season. characterized by absence, deficiency, or failure of natural or ordinary moisture. not under, in, or on water: It was good to be on dry land.
adj. free from moisture; not wet: dry branches. having or characterized by little or no rain: This dry weather is bad for the crops. not under, in, or on water:[ before a noun] to be on dry land. not now containing liquid; empty: a dry river. not yielding milk: a dry cow. free from tears: dry eyes. desiring drink;
dry: …history II From Old English dryġan ("to dry"), from dryġe ("dry") Verb dry (third-person singular simple present dries, present participle drying, simple past and past participle dried) (intransitive) To lose moisture.
Synonyms for DRIES: scorches, bakes, dehydrates, drains, desiccates, parches, evaporates, sears; Antonyms of DRIES: waters, wets, washes, hydrates, soaks, saturates, bathes, drowns.
