drying
causing dryness: a drying breeze.
designed to become or capable of becoming dry and hard on exposure to air.
Origin of drying
1Other words from drying
- non·dry·ing, adjective
- un·dry·ing, adjective
Words Nearby drying
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How to use drying in a sentence
While the beans are cooling and drying, melt the butter in a saute pan over medium heat.
Make Carla Hall’s Crispy Shallot Green Bean Casserole | Carla Hall | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf those dry counties get wet, those border stores could find their revenue drying up.
No longer on an island, the site is now left exposed to anybody willing to walk across the drying sands.
Mainly so the rest of the sorting and drying can begin when the downpours get too heavy to be out in the fields.
Why do you think the roles started drying up after Tank Girl?
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This will often save the foliage from drying up, a happening which makes the plants rather unsightly.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard BastinThe case should at such times be opened for a few hours each day to admit the drying air.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard BastinIn any case, fresh pieces of drying paper must now be used, and on to these the fronds are placed.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard BastinAfter that their track turned straight west again, and it was hard to follow, for the ground was drying fast.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairThe flue from the engine is carried through the drying room and dries his leather.
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British Dictionary definitions for drying
/ (ˈdraɪɪŋ) /
the action or process of making or becoming dry
Also called (not now in technical usage): seasoning the processing of timber until it has a moisture content suitable for the purposes for which it is to be used
causing dryness: a drying wind
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