dry#1 (a)

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type a
lex_filenum 00
def free from liquid or moisture
def lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water
def or no longer wet
examples dry land
dry clothes
a dry climate
dry splintery boards
a dry river bed
the paint is dry
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Attribute wetness
Derivationally related form dry → dryness
Antonym dry → wet
Similar to adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked; air-dried; air-dry; arid, waterless; bone-dry(a), bone dry(p); desiccated, dried-out; dried; dried-up; dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered; dry-shod; kiln-dried; rainless; semiarid; semi-dry; thirsty
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Antonym wet → dry
Similar to adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked; air-dried; air-dry; arid, waterless; bone-dry(a), bone dry(p); desiccated, dried-out; dried; dried-up; dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered; dry-shod; kiln-dried; rainless; semiarid; semi-dry; thirsty
Attribute wetness
Derivationally related form dryness → dry

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