Things that are dry lack moisture. A desert or a dessert can be dry. If your eyes are dry, you’ve stopped crying. It’s also a flavor that means the opposite of sweet.
Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture;
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Dry
a.
Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind
or day; a drying room.
a.
Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.
Drying
Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture;
Usage Examples
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
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Other Usage ExamplesA friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.