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Dry Definition

dry

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English

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Etymology 1

From Old English dryġe (“dry”)

Adjective

dry (comparative drier, superlative driest or dryest)

  1. 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.
  2. (chemistry) Free of water in any state; anhydrous
    Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
  3. (of an alcoholic beverage) Lacking sugar or low in sugar; not sweet.
    I like to take a dry sherry before lunch on Sundays.
  4. 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.
  5. (of a person or joke) Subtly humorous, yet without mirth.
  6. (of a scientist or his laboratory) Not working with chemical or biological matter, but, rather, doing computations.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from dry (adjective)
Translations
free from liquid or moisture
free of water in any state
  • Kurdish: وشک
  • Rapa Nui: paka
  • Romanian: uscat (ro) m. and n., deshidratat (ro) m. and n., arid (ro) m. and n.
  • Turkish: kuru (tr)
maintaining temperance
  • Swedish: torrlagd (sv) (involuntarily), vit (sv) (informal, rare)
doing computations

Etymology 2

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)

  1. (intransitive) To lose moisture.
    The clothes dried on the line.
  2. (transitive) To remove moisture from.
    Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
Derived terms
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Translations
to become dry
to make dry
  • Japanese: 乾かす (ja) (かわかす, kawakasu), (wipe) 拭く (ja) (ふく, fuku)
  • Korean: 말리다 (mallida)
  • Kurdish: وشک کردن
  • Latin: sicco (la), exsuco (la)
  • Latvian: žāvēt (lv)
  • Lithuanian: džiovinti (lt)
  • Polish: osuszać
  • Portuguese: secar (pt)
  • Romanian: usca (ro)
  • Russian: сушить (ru) (sušít') impf., высушить (ru) (výsušit') pf.; (wipe) вытирать (ru) (vytirát') impf., вытереть (ru) (výteret') pf.
  • Spanish: secar (es)
  • Swedish: torka (sv)
  • Telugu: ఆరబెట్టు
  • Welsh: sychu (cy)

Old English

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Celtic *druwis: cognate with Old Irish druí (Irish draoi, Gaelic druidh ‘magician’).

Noun

drȳ m.

  1. a sorcerer or magician
    Hi woldon forbærnan ðone dry. —Ælfric’s Homilies, vol. 1. (‘They would burn the sorceror.’)

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