bone-dry
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3.4
- adjective
- /boʊn draɪ/
- Soon, circles of irrigation turned bone-dry grassland into the world's richest granary.
Examples
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The soil in the garden was bone-dry due to the ongoing drought.
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So I'm making up of the fact that I was recording in a bone dry room and listen to it.
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I'm going to run them through the same bus so they don't sound bone dry because they really sound bad.
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This means the new power jobs in IT will shift to developers: people who create applications that drive businesses forward or create bone-dry simple IT infrastructure to make it happen.
Blog text (5) -
They're an odd sight, two people soaked from head to toe, dropped in the middle of a bone-dry desert... and a blue one at that.
Fiction book (1993) -
Carefully avoiding the ruts, down the narrow bone-dry lanes the children went, carrying symbolic rocks and small flat stones on their heads, calling repeatedly on the miracle worker for help:
Fiction book (1996) -
His throat was bone-dry after the long hike in the desert.
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The Southwest continues to bake under bone-dry conditions this summer.
Synonyms
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1.0
Not wet or without any liquid
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2.8
Completely dry because it has no water left
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3.5
No longer holds water and is very dry, like a riverbed or plant
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3.2
Completely dry with no water left
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7.2
Completely dried so it has no water left
Antonyms
How Dry
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bone-dry uses bone as a picture of something with no wetness, like a dry animal bone that has lost all water. So when we say something is bone-dry, we mean it has 'no moisture at all'.