Usually means: Lacking moisture, most parched condition.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. dryest: Merriam-Webster
  2. dryest: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dryest: Vocabulary.com
  4. dryest: Wordnik
  5. dryest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dryest: Wiktionary
  7. dryest: Dictionary.com
  8. dryest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. dryest: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

(Note: See dry as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dry)

adjective:  Free from or lacking moisture.
adjective:  Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
adjective:  (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
adjective:  (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
adjective:  (figurative) Athirst, eager.
adjective:  Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
adjective:  (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
adjective:  Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
adjective:  (wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
adjective:  (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
adjective:  Lacking interest, boring.
adjective:  (poker) Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
adjective:  (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
adjective:  (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
adjective:  (sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
adjective:  (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
adjective:  Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
adjective:  Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
adjective:  (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
adjective:  (Malaysia, Singapore, of noodles) Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
noun:  The process by which something is dried.
noun:  (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
noun:  An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
noun:  (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
noun:  (Australia) An area of waterless country.
noun:  Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
noun:  (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose moisture.
verb:  (transitive) To remove moisture from.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
verb:  (intransitive, informal, theater) For an actor to forget their lines while performing.
adjective:  (software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as little repetition as possible.
verb:  (software engineering) To cause code to become DRY; to remove repetition from code.
noun:  A surname.
▸ Also see dry


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