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v. Present participle of dry. Dry: Free from liquid or moisture: changed to dry clothes.

adj. Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture

adj. Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.

Serving to dry; adapted to exhaust moisture: as, a drying wind or day.

Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry and hard: as, a drying oil. See oil.

"'It was what we call a drying-up, or withering of the System.'"

siccative    exsiccant    exsiccative    desiccant    desiccative    torrefactive   

dry   

allying    applying    belying    buying    complying    crying    decrying    defying    denying    dyeing