dry
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /draɪ/
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- Rhymes: -aɪ
[edit] Etymology 1
From Old English dryġe (“‘dry’”)
[edit] Adjective
dry (comparative drier, superlative driest or dryest)
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- Free from liquid or moisture.
- Could you hand me a dry towel?
- My throat feels itchy and dry.
- Cover the chicken as it bakes or it'll get too dry.
- (chemistry) Free of water in any state; anhydrous
- Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
- Maintaining temperance; void or abstinent from alcoholic beverages.
- A former alcoholic, he's been dry for almost a year now.
- You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.
- It was a dry house.
- Of an alcoholic drink that is not sweet, and /or has a high alcohol content.
- I like to take a dry sherry before lunch on Sundays.
- (of a person or joke) Subtly humorous.
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Terms derived from the adjective “dry”
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free from liquid or moisture
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free of water in any state
maintaining temperance
[edit] Etymology 2
From Old English dryġan (“‘to dry’”), from dryġe (“‘dry’”)
[edit] Verb
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to dry (third-person singular simple present dries, present participle drying, simple past and past participle dried)
- (intransitive) To lose moisture.
- The clothes dried on the line.
- (transitive) To remove moisture from.
- Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
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to become dry
to make dry
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[edit] Old English
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- IPA: /dry:/
[edit] Etymology
From Celtic *druwis: cognate with Old Irish druí (Irish draoi, Gaelic druidh ‘magician’).
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drȳ m.
- a sorcerer or magician
- Hi woldon forbærnan ðone dry. —Ælfric’s Homilies, vol. 1. (‘They would burn the sorceror.’)
