Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no trace of moisture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Very dry; as dry as a bone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective without a trace of moisture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective idiomatic totally
dry ; without moisture.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone
- adjective without a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone
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Examples
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Pickin 'and grinnin': Man-of-many-talents Steve Martin is helping bluegrass music expand beyond its niche audience, judging from the huge crowd that packed the Gentilly Stage area Thursday to hear him play banjo with the Steep Canyon Rangers quintet from Asheville, N.C. Nearly all of the 15 songs were Martin originals, most from his Grammy-winning The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo album, and he spiced them up with interludes of bone-dry humor.
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If I were serving them on holiday, it would always be with a bottle of bone-dry Provençal rosé.
The Catch of the Day Will Lyons 2011
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Examination of the chalk springs that feed the upper Ouzel shows they are still flowing, so the river will not run dry, but with no substantial rain in months and bone-dry cracked ground across the whole area there will be no run-off from rain.
Weatherwatch: Drought, river levels and the effect on wildlife 2011
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The creek that is normally the water source for that course is bone-dry.
Where the Game Is in a Dry Season John Paul Newport 2011
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Most of the fires have been in bone-dry Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
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Texas is enduring its most severe drought since the 1950s, with bone-dry conditions made worse by weeks of triple-digit temperatures in many cities.
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While the beer is bone-dry it is not overwhelming at all and the nose is the onlyaspect of the beer that holds it back from being an all-time great.
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It was every bit the majestic frontier town that I had imagined, occupying a sweeping, bone-dry peninsula set between long lines of ashen cliffs and a sea the color of rusty tap water.
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While the beer is bone-dry it is not overwhelming at all and the nose is the onlyaspect of the beer that holds it back from being an all-time great.
Kevin Burns 2009
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Most of the fires have been in bone-dry Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
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