Drying Meaning and Definition

Word: Drying

How to pronounce: ˈdraɪɪŋ

How to pronounce: draɪ

Adjective

Definitions:

1. Free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist.

Example sentences: "The jacket kept me warm and dry"

2. (of information, writing, etc.) dully factual.

Example sentences: "The dry facts of the matter"

3. (of a joke or sense of humour) subtle and expressed in a matter-of-fact way.

Example sentences: "He delighted his friends with a dry, covert sense of humour"

4. Prohibiting the sale or consumption of alcoholic drink.

Example sentences: "The country is strictly dry, in accordance with Islamic law"

5. (of an alcoholic drink) not sweet.

Example sentences: "A dry, medium-bodied red wine"

6. Relating to political ‘dries’; rigidly monetarist.

Verb

Definitions:

1. Become dry.

Example sentences: "Allow 24 hours for the paint to dry"

2. Forget one's lines.

Example sentences: "A colleague of mine once dried in the middle of a scene"

Noun

Definitions:

1. The process or an instance of drying.

Example sentences: "Soft towelling that gives you a good, clean dry every time."

2. A dry or covered place.

3. A Conservative politician (especially in the 1980s) in favour of strict monetarist policies.

Example sentences: "Any self-respecting Country Party MP would have taken to the economic dries of the Liberal Party with an axe years ago."

4. A person in favour of the prohibition of alcohol.

Example sentences: "Evangelical dries had seen to it that the nearest bottle of whiskey was miles away"

Synonyms:

drying process

dryout

desiccation

dehydration

predrying

curing

shrinkage

drainage

varnish

drying oil

dehumidification

dewatering

dehumidifying

siccative

drier

Synonyms:

dried

arid

droughty

rainless

dusty

dry out

dry up

peter out

dehumidify

shrivel

run out

sear

shrivel up

run dry

dryness

aridity

to dryness

wipe

desiccation

dryer

overdry

dryout

drain

sere

granular

loose

tedious

tiresome

distant

waterless

cool

cold

heavy

anhydrous

dreary

flat

dull

thirsty

Antonyms:

hydration

Derivations:

dry

dried

dryer

dryish

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Drying in Other Languages...

Spanish: Secado

German: Trocknen

French: Séchage

Italian: Essiccazione

Turkish: Kuru