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How to pronounce dry in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dry out
Type of change
Has types scorch, run dry, dry out
Derivation drier


The laundry dries in the sun.
Type Words
Synonyms prohibitionist
Type of crusader, reformer, reformist, social reformer, meliorist
Type Words
Synonyms juiceless


a dry book.
a dry lecture filled with trivial details.
Type Words
Synonyms ironic, ironical, wry
Derivation dryness


dry humor.
Type Words
Synonyms dry out
Type of modify, change, alter
Has types parch, rough-dry, blow-dry, sear, spin-dry, spray-dry, tumble dry, air, dehumidify, desiccate, drip-dry, dry up, exsiccate, dehydrate
Derivation drier


dry clothes.
dry hair.
Type Words
Synonyms teetotal
Derivation dryness


he's been dry for ten years.
Type Words
Derivation dryness


dry land.
dry clothes.
a dry climate.
dry splintery boards.
a dry river bed.
the paint is dry.
Type Words


a very dry martini is almost straight gin.
Type Words


dry facts.
rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner.
Type Words
Derivation dryness


a dry greeting.
a dry reading of the lines.
a dry critique.
Type Words
Derivation dryness


a dry cow.
Type Words
Derivation dryness


dry sobs.
with dry eyes.
Type Words


dry toast.
dry meat.
Type Words


a dry white burgundy.
a dry Bordeaux.
Type Words


a dry run.
a mind dry of new ideas.
Type Words


dry weight.
Type Words
Derivation dryness


dry paint.
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the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers.
a dry state.
Type Words
Derivation dryness


a dry cough.
that rare thing in the wintertime; a small child with a dry nose.

Examples of dry

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Make sure you have plenty of ventilation to dry things off when they do get wet.
From the dailyherald.com
These attaching fronds start out green but soon dry to resemble parchment paper.
From the dailyherald.com
If you'd like to get a head start, combine the dry ingredients the night before.
From the stltoday.com
Tiger Woods'59 weeks without a win is the longest dry spell since he turned pro.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Are there products that can be applied easily and that will dry in a short time?
From the thenewstribune.com
It must be clean and dry before you apply it, or the deck will just crack again.
From the dailyherald.com
After that was dry, I used exterior grout to finish the areas between the tiles.
From the dailyherald.com
Using hot dry knife and wiping knife clean between slices, cut cake into slices.
From the news-journalonline.com
However, Tramco also builds conveyors for numerous industrial dry bulk products.
From the kansas.com
More examples
  • A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
  • Remove the moisture from and make dry; "dry clothes"; "dry hair"
  • Become dry or drier; "The laundry dries in the sun"
  • Humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit"
  • Lacking moisture or volatile components; "dry paint"
  • Opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers"; "a dry state"
  • In software engineering, Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) or Duplication is Evil (DIE) is a principle of software development aimed at reducing repetition of information of all kinds, especially useful in multi-tier architectures. ...
  • Dry is an album by PJ Harvey. It was recorded at the Icehouse, Yeovil, UK, and released in the UK on Too Pure (with the first 5000 LPs and first 1000 CDs including demo versions of the album's tracks), and subsequently on Indigo Records in the US. Both versions were released in 1992.
  • Dry is a Cantopop music duo that formed between 1997 and 1998 with Mark Lui and Stephen Fung as bandmates. The group was formed when Mark decided to create a band with himself and another person. ...