to dry
- verb
- /draɪ/
- After washing the dishes, I will dry them with a towel.
- dry quickly
- dry in the sun
- dry and store
Let that space of paper dry, come back and paint again.
- Let that space of paper dry, come back and paint again.
- Multiple days of it not fully drying at like the track area.
- And then you leave them to dry overnight uncovered.
- This will not fully dry the oil paint, but it'll help.
- Now, when this dries, it will dry with dirt spots.
- They went inside to to, you know, dry off and take a shower.
Examples
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This will not fully dry the oil paint, but it'll help.
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Let that space of paper dry, come back and paint again.
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We're going to let that dry and see what happens.
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Come on, take these off as well and I'll put them in to dry with the rest.
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So I'm just going to let it dry for two hours.
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And while I'm waiting for it to dry, let's make bath bombs.
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Now, when this dries, it will dry with dirt spots.
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"When the market for Westerns dried up, I turned to crime novels."
Academic text (2011) -
After about 2,000 feet, the trail dries and the land gradually rises.
Academic text (2011) -
Homerin waited patiently for me to dry my eyes and blow my nose.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
To lose all water or moisture so it has none left
To dry something so it does not go bad
To become dry or make something no longer wet
To lose too much water and become very dry
To keep food for a long time by freezing it and then removing its water
Make something very dry from heat or sun
To remove all water from something so it stays dry
To dry a liquid by making a fine spray that becomes powder when hot air hits it
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
To use very little paint to make a rough, scratchy texture on a surface
- Specialized
To dry a liquid by making a fine spray that becomes powder when hot air hits it
Compounds
- Specialized
A very cold solid made from carbon dioxide used to keep things frozen and make white fog
- Specialized
A place where workers empty the water so they can build or fix a ship's bottom
- Specialized
A way of painting that uses very little paint to make a rough, scratchy texture
- Specialized
A small battery with a moist paste inside that gives power to devices like a flashlight
- Offensive
An attack in which someone hides and kills another person by surprise in a lonely place
- Specialized
A small source of electricity used in devices like radios or flashlights that has no liquid
- Archaic
A way to make photographs on glass plates with a thin light-sensitive layer
- Specialized
A print made by scratching a metal plate with a hard needle to make dark, soft lines
- Specialized
Dead skin and flesh that become dry and dark when blood flow stops, often in a toe or foot
- Specialized
Severe pain in the empty hole after a tooth is removed when the blood clot falls out
- Specialized
A small insect that lives in and eats dry wood not touching the ground
- Specialized
A portable structure that sinks so a ship can enter and then lifts it out for repair
- Specialized
A unit used in the United States to measure dry things like grain
How Dry
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dry as a verb comes from the same old English root drig meaning 'not wet'. To dry something is to remove its water so it becomes 'not wet'.