📒 not wet or sticky; without water or moisture
- Is my shirt dry yet?
- Store onions in a cool dry place.
- I'm afraid this cake has turned out very dry.
📒 with very little rain
- weeks of hot, dry weather
- the dry season
- I hope it stays dry for our picnic.
📒 without the natural oils that makes it soft and healthy
📒 that does not produce any phlegm (= the thick liquid that forms in the nose and throat)
📒 eaten on its own without any butter, jam, etc.
- Breakfast consisted of dry bread and a cup of tea.
📒 not sweet
- a crisp dry white wine
- a dry sherry
- This wine is too dry for me.
📒 very clever and expressed in a quiet way that is not obvious; often using irony
- He was a man of few words with a delightful dry sense of humour.
- She quickly built up a reputation for her dry wit.
📒 not showing emotion
- a dry voice
- ‘He may not last the night,’ she said in a dry tone.
- He replied in a cold, dry manner.
📒 not interesting
- Government reports tend to make dry reading.
- They were conducting a dry debate on science policy.
📒 without alcohol; where it is illegal to buy, sell or drink alcohol
- We had a dry wedding (= no alcoholic drinks were served).
- a dry county/state
- He's been dry (= has drunk no alcohol) for a year now.
📒 thirsty; that makes you thirsty
- I'm a bit dry.
- This is dry work.
📒 to have done something successfully, especially when it was difficult
- I could see the finish line and thought I was home and dry.
📒 to take away all somebody’s money
- The big corporations are bleeding some of these small countries dry.
📒 in a position out of the water
- Their yacht was left high and dry on a sandbank.
📒 in a difficult situation, without help or money
📒 to remain ready for a possible emergency
📒 to get from somebody/something all the money, help, information, etc. they have, usually giving nothing in return
- By earning millions from racing and giving pennies back, the bookmakers are sucking the sport dry.
📒 used to say that everyone was very emotional about something
- There wasn't a dry eye in the house when they announced their engagement.
📒 to stop supplying water; to be all used so that none is left
- The wells in most villages in the region have run dry.
- Vaccine supplies started to run dry as the flu outbreak reached epidemic proportions.
- Our resources of scientific talent and ingenuity have not run dry.
📒 to get as much money, information, etc. out of somebody as you can