driest
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Definitions ofdriest
- Free from or lacking moisture.
Example: "This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?"
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, oil, or (farming) milk.
Example: "This well is as dry as that cow."
- Built without or lacking mortar.
- Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
Example: "Dry alcohol is 200 proof."
- Athirst, eager.
- Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
Example: "Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now."
- Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
Example: "You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor."
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
- (somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
- (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects.
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
Example: "never dry fire a bow; dry humping her girlfriend; making a dry run"
- Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
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