An appliance that removes moisture.

synoniem: drier.

Nederlands: droger, droogautomaat, droogkap, droogtrommel, föhn, haardroger, haardroogkap, trommeldroger, wasdroger

A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages.

synoniem: prohibitionist.

Pools: prohibicjonista

Remove the moisture from and make dry:
— Dry clothes.
— Dry hair.

synoniem: dry out.

Roget 789: take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket; receive; accept.    reap, crop, cull, pluck; gather etc. (get) 775; draw.    appropriate, expropriate, impropriate^†; assume, possess oneself of; take possession of; commandeer; lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on; help oneself to; make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution; intercept; scramble for; deprive of.    take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off; adeem^†; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal etc. 791; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave^†.    snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up; kidnap, crimp, capture, lay violent hands on.    get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold of, take firm hold of; lay by the heels, take prisoner; fasten upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of.    catch at, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at; reach, make a long arm, stretch forth one's hand.    take from, take away from; disseize^†; deduct etc. 38; retrench etc. (curtail) 201; dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling.    oust etc. (eject) 297; divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach^†; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume^†, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb etc. (suck in) 296; draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.    retake, resume; recover etc. 775.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 340: be dry etc. adj.. render dry etc. adj.; dry; dry up, soak up; sponge, swab, wipe; drain.    desiccate, dehydrate, exsiccate^†; parch.    kiln dry; vacuum dry, blow dry, oven dry; hang out to dry.    mummify.    be fine, hold up.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 670: preserve, maintain, keep, sustain, support, hold; keep up, keep alive; refrigerate, keep on ice; not willingly let die; bank up; nurse; save, rescue; be safe, make safe etc. 664; take care of etc. (care) 459; guard etc. (defend) 717.    stare super antiquas vias [Lat.] [Bacon]; hold one's own; hold one's ground, stand one's ground etc. (resist) 719.    embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize^†, bottle, pot, tin, can; sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize [Chem], freeze-dry, concentrate, evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband etc. (store) 636.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: dehydreren, drogen, droogleggen, droogmaken

Become dry or drier:
— The laundry dries in the sun.

synoniem: dry out.

Nederlands: drogen, opdrogen

Free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet.

Roget 581: aphonous^†, dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-tied; breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish^†, mute as a mackerel; silent etc. (taciturn) 585; muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible.    croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven; rough.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 576: plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely, homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of-fact, natural, prosaic.    dry, unvaried, monotonous etc. 575.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 579: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde [Fr.]; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly^†, unpolished; turgid etc. 577; affected, euphuistic^†; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite.    2. Spoken Language ... meer laten zien

Roget 640: insufficient, inadequate; too little etc. 32; not enough etc. 639; unequal to; incompetent etc. (impotent) 158; weighed in the balance and found wanting;" perfunctory etc. (neglect) 460; deficient etc. (incomplete) 53; wanting, etc. v.; imperfect etc. 651; ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-stored, ill-off.    slack, at a low ebb; empty, vacant, bare; short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of, bereft of etc. 789; denuded of; dry, drained.    unprovided, unsupplied^†, unfurnished; unreplenished, unfed^†; unstored^†, untreasured^†; empty-handed.    meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted; starved, starving; halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished; jejune.    scant etc. (small) 32; scarce; not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price; scurvy; stingy etc. 819; at the end of one's tether; without resources etc. 632; in want etc. (poor) 804; in debt etc. 806.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 932: disapproving etc. v.; scandalized.    disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory^†, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory^†, clamorous, vituperative; defamatory etc. 934.    satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon; censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical; fastidious etc. 868; sparing of praise, grudging praise.    disapproved, chid etc. v.; in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved; unblest^†; at a discount, exploded; weighed in the balance and found wanting.    blameworthy, reprehensible etc. (guilt) 947; to blame, worthy of blame; answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of; bad etc. 649; vicious etc. 945.    unlamented, unbewailed^†, unpitied^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 865: desirous; desiring etc. v.; inclined etc. (willing) 602; partial to; fain, wishful, optative^†; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous.    craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish^†, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient^†, lickerish^†, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy^†; hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear.    [excessively desirous] greedy etc. 817.1. unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked; unsaturated.    eager, avid, keen; burning, fervent, ardent; agog; all agog; breathless; impatient etc. (impetuous) 825; bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon; mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire.    aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching.    desirable; desired etc. v.; in demand; pleasing etc. (giving pleasure) 829; appetizing, appetible^†; tantalizing.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 841: wearying etc. v.; wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific, somniferous.    disgusting etc. v.; unenjoyed^†.    weary, tired etc. v.; drowsy etc. (sleepy) 683; uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life; sick of.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 575: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.    careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent) 460; slipshod, slipslop^†; inexact; puerile, childish; flatulent; rambling etc. (diffuse) 573.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: suchy

Lacking moisture or volatile components.

Opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages.

Not producing milk.

of liquor Having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation.

Without a mucous or watery discharge.

Humorously sarcastic or mocking:
— Dry humor.

synoniemen: ironic, ironical, wry.

Pools: ironiczny

Not shedding tears.

Lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless:
— A dry book.
— A dry lecture filled with trivial details.

synoniem: juiceless.

Roget 340: dry, anhydrous, arid; adust^†, arescent^†; dried etc. v.; undamped; juiceless^†, sapless; sear; husky; rainless, without rain, fine; dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit.    water proof, water tight.    dehydrated, dessicated.    ... meer laten zien

Used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones.

Unproductive especially of the expected results.

Having no adornment or coloration.

of food Eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish.

Having a large proportion of strong liquor.

Lacking warmth or emotional involvement.

Pools: oschły

Practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages:
— He's been dry for ten years.

synoniem: teetotal.

Roget 953: temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing; abstemious, abstinent; within compass; measured etc. (sufficient) 639.    on the wagon, on the water wagon.    [Locations where alcoholic beverages are prohibited] dry.    Pythagorean; vegetarian; teetotal.    ... meer laten zien