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(adj)
Without tears.
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(archaic or literary, poetic) Without moisture; dry.
Without rain.
Not having shed tears.
Without milk.
Without juice or sap.
(adv)
With one's footwear dry, not in or under water, usually referring to walking on ground which at another time, or usually, is covered with deep water.
That does not stimulate
Showing little or no feeling.
Not exciting.
Not productive; useless; fruitless.
Not drunk; not intoxicated.
Not sweet.
Abstinent from alcohol; never drinking alcohol.
Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.
(of a situation) Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.
Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
Collapsed in size.
Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
(chiefly UK, uncommon, proscribed) Alternative spelling of humorous. [Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.]
Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.
Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
(n)
(informal) Second, ¹⁄₆₀ of a minute.
Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic.
A person who agrees with, or advocates a prohibition, especially the outlawing of the sale of alcoholic beverages
Needing to drink water or any liquid that can supply water.
Dry, arid, lacking water.
Very thirsty.
Very dry.
(of champagne) very dry, and not sweet
dried
(v)
(colloquial, ambitransitive, idiomatic) To (cause to) sober up; to cease to be drunk; to quit using drugs or alcohol.
Simple, unaltered.
Dried, damaged or burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat.
Baked by the heat of the sun.
(by extension) Hot and dry; thirsty or parched.
Of, pertaining to, or affected by alcoholism.
(of an object or substance) That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid, gas or plasma.
That has been cooked by baking.
thoroughly dried out
depleted of water
(idiomatic) Totally dry; without moisture.
Alternative form of bone-dry. [(idiomatic) Totally dry; without moisture.]
Having little or no water.
(of places) Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
A region of space that contains no matter.
Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
Not buttered.
Boring; not exciting or interesting.
reluctant to spend money; miserly or stingy
Alternative form of dead weight. [Unremitting heavy weight that does not move.]
Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
Liable to perish, especially naturally subject to quick decomposition or decay.
Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
(Northumbria, North Yorkshire) To go.
A method, device or medication that restores good health.
Of a food, often a liquid: containing seasonings
(sometimes nonstandard) Synonym of forward.
(informal, countable) A prep school.
Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
(by extension) Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point.
(uncountable) A lack of moisture.
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
(uncommon) Related by blood or marriage, akin. (It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.)
Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
Exactly suitable, fitting, apt; timely, convenient, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken.
(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.
Suffering from dehydration.
Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
Resistant to leaks; hermetic, sound; as of a dry cell battery.
(transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
Characterized by the presence of moisture; not dry; slightly wet; damp.
The state of being moist.
Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
Resistant to the effects of water.
(slang) Caught in the act of doing something one shouldn't do.
Abbreviation of secretaries.
(meteorology) Condensed water falling from a cloud.
The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.
A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
which has been made into a powder
(medicine) dry
Preserved, for a dead body, by mummification.
The amount of snow that falls on one occasion.
Ammunition.
Fine particles.
A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
Of, relating to, or situated in the uplands.
(transitive) To discard or abandon.
(often attributive) Land that is arid, but not so dry as to be a desert.
A second helping of food for one person, or refill of coffee or other drink.
(of an environment or habitat) Very dry, lacking humidity and water.
(metrology) A unit of pressure that is equal to approximately 0.001316 atmospheres or 133.3 pascals.
The act of cleaning a ship's bottom.
(astronautics) Acronym of sustainer engine cutoff.