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dry

adjective
  1. Having little or no liquid or moisture: anhydrous, arid, bone-dry, moistureless, sere, waterless. See dry
  2. Having little or no precipitation: arid, droughty, rainless, thirsty. See dry
  3. Disagreeable to the sense of hearing: grating, harsh, hoarse, jarring, rasping, raspy, raucous, rough, scratchy, squawky, strident. See sounds
  4. Needing or desiring drink: parched, thirsty. Archaic: athirst. See dry
  5. Having a taste characteristic of that produced by acids: acerb, acerbic, acetous, acid, acidulous, sour, tangy, tart 1. See taste
  6. Without addition, decoration, or qualification: bald, bare, plain, simple, unadorned, unvarnished. See plain
  7. With little or no emotion or expression: impassive, matter-of-fact, unemotional. See attitude, excite
  8. Lacking liveliness, charm, or surprise: arid, aseptic, colorless, drab, dull, earthbound, flat, flavorless, lackluster, lifeless, lusterless, matter-of-fact, pedestrian, prosaic, spiritless, sterile, stodgy, unimaginative, uninspired. See excite
  9. Arousing no interest or curiosity: boring, drear, dreary, dull, humdrum, irksome, monotonous, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, weariful, wearisome, weary. See excite
verb
  1. To make or become free of moisture. Also used with out: dehydrate, desiccate, exsiccate, parch. See dry
  2. To make or become physically hard: cake, concrete, congeal, harden, indurate, petrify, set 1, solidify. See solid
phrasal verb

dry up
  1. To make or become no longer fresh or shapely because of loss of moisture: mummify, sear, shrivel, wither, wizen. See dry
  2. To make or become no longer active or productive: deplete, desiccate, give out, play out, run out. See continue
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