Dry Out

Definition: Dry Out

Dry Out

Verb

1. Become dry or drier; "The laundry dries in the sun".

2. Become empty of water; "The river runs dry in the summer.".

3. Remove the moisture from and make dry; "dry clothes"; "dry hair".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Dry Out

Crosswords: Dry Out

Health

They dry out the mouth. (references)

Caffeine can dry out the mouth. (references)

Soap can dry out the skin, making discomfort worse. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

thahet (die away, die down, drain, dry off, dry up, parch, wither), teret (be dried up), ter (exsiccate, sap), kuroj kundër alkoolizmit, kurohem kundër alkoolizmit. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرغ (be empty, become empty, complete, conclude, discharge, drain, empty, end, evacuate, finalize, finish, pour, terminate, vacate, void). (various references)

Danish

toerre (dehydrate, to dry out, unwater) to), oese (to dry out, unwater) to), nedtrapning (drug withdrawal, to dry out, withdrawal), laense (to dry out, unwater) to). (various references)

Dutch

dry out (to dry out), uithozen (to dry out, unwater) to), lenzen (empty), leegpompen (to dry out, unwater) to), hozen (draw). (various references)

French

dessécher (dry smth. out), se dessécher. (various references)

German

vertrocknen (dry up, go dry, shrivel, wither), trockenlegen (change, drain, to drain), austrocknen (drain, dry, dry up, parch, sear, shrivel, wither), auslaugen (exhaust, impoverish, wash the goodness out of, wear out). (various references)

Greek 

στέγνωμα (drying), εκκένωση με αντλία (to dry out, unwater) to). (various references)

Italian

uscirne (to dry out), pulirsi (clean), prosciugare (ditch, drain, dry up, exhaust), evacuare (empty, evacuate), esaurirel'acqua mediante sassola a mano (to dry out, unwater) to), attingere acqua a mezzo gottazzo (to dry out, unwater) to), aggozttare (to dry out, unwater) to). (various references)

Pig Latin

ydray outay

Portuguese

desintoxicar (to dry out), limpar (bream, brush, clean, cleanse, delete, depurate, fettle, furbish, make clean, mop up, purge, purify, rake, rub, rub down, rub out, scavenge, scour, unstop, wash, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up). (various references)

Romanian

se evapora (boil away, evaporate, exhale, fume, vapor, vaporize, vapour). (various references)

Spanish

desecar (desiccate, drain, dry up, exsiccate), agotar (consume, deplete, distress, drain, exhaust, exhaust a well, expend, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, knock out, knock up, play out, sap, spend, take out, tire out, use up, waste, wear, wear down, work out), achicar (bail, bale, diminish, dwarf, humble, lessen, minimize, pump out, reduce, scoop out, scoop up, take in). (various references)

Swedish

torka ut (become dry, dry, dry up, exsiccate), sitta på torken, sätta på torken. (various references)

Thai

ทำให้แห้งผาก (dry up), หยุ�" (arrest, block, break, cease, cease from, die, dry up, nix, shut). (various references)

Turkmen 

guramak (organize). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dorty.

-2 letters: dory, doty, dour, duro, duty, rout, ryot, tody, tory, tour, trod, troy, turd, tyro, your, yurt.

-3 letters: dor, dot, dry, duo, ort, oud, our, out, rod, rot, rut, tod, tor, toy, try, udo, urd, yod, you.

-4 letters: do, od, or, oy, to, ut, yo.

+1 letter: drouthy.

+2 letters: auditory, droughty, rotundly, sudatory, udometry.

+3 letters: adulatory, byproduct, courtyard, desultory, euthyroid, feudatory, laudatory, outdoorsy, outprayed, outwardly, rotundity, tourneyed, tutoyered.

+4 letters: adjuratory, audiometry, auditorily, byproducts, courtyards, inundatory, judicatory, modularity, modulatory, obdurately, orotundity, profundity, understory, undulatory, untowardly.

+5 letters: countryfied, countryside, countrywide, desultorily, dexterously, discourtesy, documentary, moribundity, nonauditory, nonindustry, purportedly, redoubtably, typefounder, unorthodoxy.