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- [drahy out]
- /draɪ aʊt/
- /draɪ ˈaʊt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [drahy out]
- /draɪ aʊt/
Definitions of dry out words
- adjective dry out free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air. 1
- adjective dry out having or characterized by little or no rain: a dry climate; the dry season. 1
- adjective dry out characterized by absence, deficiency, or failure of natural or ordinary moisture. 1
- adjective dry out not under, in, or on water: It was good to be on dry land. 1
- adjective dry out not now containing or yielding water or other liquid; depleted or empty of liquid: The well is dry. 1
- adjective dry out not yielding milk: a dry cow. 1
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Origin of dry out
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English drie, Old English drȳge; akin to Dutch droog, German trocken; see drought
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Parts of speech for Dry out
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
dry out popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
dry out usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for dry out
verb dry out
- restore — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- repair — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- relieve — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- rehabilitate — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- mend — to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing: to mend old clothes; to mend a broken toy.
Antonyms for dry out
verb dry out
- damage — To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
- destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- injure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- harm — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
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