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dry

The English word “dry” has 31 meanings listed here.

  1. Free from or lacking moisture.
  2. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
  3. Built without or lacking mortar.
  4. Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
  5. Athirst, eager.
  6. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
  7. Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
  8. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly
  9. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness
  10. Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
  11. Lacking interest, boring.
  12. Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
  13. Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
  14. Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
  15. Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
  16. Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
  17. Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
  18. Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
  19. In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
  20. Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
  21. Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
  22. The process by which something is dried.
  23. A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
  24. An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
  25. The dry season.
  26. An area of waterless country.
  27. A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
  28. To lose moisture.
  29. To remove moisture from.
  30. To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
  31. For an actor to forget their lines while performing.
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