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Bone-dry   /boʊn-draɪ/   Listen
Bone-dry

adjective
1.
Without a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone.  Synonym: bone dry.  "A drier to get the clothes bone dry"






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"Bone-dry" Quotes from Famous Books



... manufacture and did not wish to swell the number of anti-Volsteaders. He was looking to securing results rather than to being gloriously but futilely consistent. Similarly the practical Mr. Wheeler foresaw that if American ships were bone-dry the bibulous would book on foreign ships and the total consumption of beverages would not be materially diminished. For a barren victory he did not care to have Volsteadism carry the blame of driving American passenger ships from ...
— What Prohibition Has Done to America • Fabian Franklin

... whole region was bewildering, but still we struggled on, lost men searching for lost men. The sun blazed hotly, and the soft yellow bluffs of bone-dry earth reached down to the ...
— Vanguards of the Plains • Margaret McCarter



Words linked to "Bone-dry" :   bone dry, dry



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