dry

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verb

ADVERB

▪ carefully, completely, properly, thoroughly

▪

Wait until the paint has completely dried.

▪

Always dry clothes thoroughly before you wear them again.

▪ partially

▪ quickly, rapidly

▪ slowly

▪ naturally

▪ off, out

▪

We left the wood in the shed to dry out.

▪ overnight

▪

Allow the paper to dry overnight.

VERB + DRY

▪ allow sth to, leave sth to, let sth

▪

It's best to let your hair dry naturally.

PHRASAL VERB

dry up

1 become empty of water

ADVERB

▪ completely

▪

It's been so hot this year that the pond has dried up completely.

2 be no longer available

ADVERB

▪ completely

▪

Funds have completely dried up.

▪ virtually

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adj.

VERBS

▪ be, feel, look, seem

▪ become, get, go, run

▪

Come into the warm and get dry, both of you.

▪

Ruth felt her mouth go dry.

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The wells in most villages in the region have run dry.

▪

Vaccine supplies started to run dry as the flu outbreak reached epidemic proportions. (figurative)

▪ keep, remain, stay

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We managed to keep dry by huddling in a doorway.

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There is every prospect of the weather remaining dry this week.

▪ pat sb/sth, rub sb/sth, towel sb

▪

Rinse the mushrooms and pat dry.

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Towel yourself dry before getting dressed.

▪ bleed sb, milk sb, squeeze sb, suck sb (all figurative)

▪

The big corporations are bleeding some of these small countries dry (= taking all their money).

▪ keep sth

▪

This type of wound is best kept dry without a dressing.

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ bone, completely, perfectly, quite, thoroughly, totally

▪

The river was bone dry.

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Make sure the paint is thoroughly dry.

▪ almost, nearly

▪ barely, hardly, scarcely (often figurative)

▪

The ink was scarcely dry on the agreement before fighting broke out again.

▪ mainly, mostly

▪

The day will start bright and mainly dry.

▪ a little, slightly, etc.

▪ reasonably (esp. BrE), relatively

Dry is used with these nouns: ↑air, ↑biscuit, ↑bone, ↑cargo, ↑champagne, ↑cider, ↑climate, ↑cloth, ↑clothes, ↑condition, ↑cough, ↑desert, ↑diaper, ↑dirt, ↑earth, ↑evening, ↑eye, ↑food, ↑grass, ↑ground, ↑hair, ↑heat, ↑humour, ↑ingredient, ↑land, ↑laugh, ↑leaf, ↑lip, ↑milk, ↑month, ↑mouth, ↑mud, ↑mustard, ↑paint, ↑patch, ↑run, ↑sand, ↑sarcasm, ↑scalp, ↑season, ↑sense of humour, ↑sherry, ↑slope, ↑sob, ↑soil, ↑spell, ↑sponge, ↑storage, ↑store, ↑summer, ↑throat, ↑toast, ↑tone, ↑towel, ↑twig, ↑weather, ↑well, ↑wine, ↑wit