Usually means: Remove moisture until completely dry.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word dry out:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. dry out: Merriam-Webster
  2. dry out: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dry out: Vocabulary.com
  4. dry (sth) out, dry out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. dry out: Wiktionary
  6. dry-out, dry out: Dictionary.com
  7. dry out: Rhymezone
  8. dry out: FreeDictionary.org
  9. dry out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. dry out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. dry out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  12. dry out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dry out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dry out: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dry out: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dry out, dry out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Dry out, dry out: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (dry out)

verb:  (transitive) To cause moisture to be completely removed from; to make dry.
verb:  (intransitive) To have excess water evaporate or be otherwise removed; to become dry.
verb:  (colloquial, ambitransitive, idiomatic) To (cause to) sober up; to cease to be drunk; to quit using drugs or alcohol.
verb:  (intransitive, bowling, of a bowling lane) To become less oily, affecting play, after being oiled up.

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