bone-dry

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Adjective bone-dry has 1 sense

bone-dry, bone dry - without a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone; "bone-dry leaves are a fire hazard"; "a drier to get the clothes bone dry"
Antonym: wet (indirect, via dry)

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Bone-Dry

adjective

1. completely devoid of moisture; extremely dry

Example sentence: After days of scorching heat, the ground became bone-dry and cracked.

idiom

1. extremely dry, especially referring to humor or wit

Example sentence: His bone-dry wit never failed to entertain the audience.

adverb

1. completely or extremely dry

Example sentence: The leaves rustled bone-dry under my feet as I walked through the parched forest.

noun

1. a bone-dry place or region

Example sentence: The desert is a vast expanse of bone-dry, barren land.

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