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
Alpha also wicks moisture and spreads it out for quicker drying times.
The Kora Xenolith Is My Secret Weapon Against the Cold | Wes Siler | February 2, 2021 | Outside OnlineTourmaline is a semi-precious metal and, when used as a coating, can non-electronically create additional negative ions for an even faster drying process.
The best hair dryer: Get a salon-worthy blowout at home | Carsen Joenk | January 22, 2021 | Popular-ScienceFurther, expensive merino base layers don’t take kindly to frequent washing and drying, meaning you only want to wear them when really necessary—not every day—or embrace body odor, which my wife tells me I’m not allowed to do.
I have such thick hair that I avoid blow-drying at all costs.
The 12 best beauty and wellness products under $70 I added to my routine this year | Rachel Schallom | December 25, 2020 | FortuneRepeated rounds of wetting and drying could produce chains of molecules.
Life on Earth may have begun in hostile hot springs | Jack J. Lee | September 24, 2020 | Science News
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?
Lori Petty on ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ the Halcyon ‘90s, and Discovering Jennifer Lawrence | Marlow Stern | June 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis 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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