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bone-dry

[ bohn-drahy ]

adjective

  1. very dry.
  2. very thirsty.
  3. Ceramics. (of clay) thoroughly dried. dry.


bone-dry

adjective

  1. informal.
    1. completely dry

      a bone-dry well

    2. ( postpositive )

      the well was bone dry

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bone-dry1

First recorded in 1815–25
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It warned that there was typically a large volume of "dead, bone-dry vegetation across large areas of countryside" at this time of year which acts as a fuel for fire.

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His bone-dry delivery makes it so that the sour is never too sharp and the sentimental is never too syrupy.

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A fire had ignited high in the hills of Pacific Palisades, and smoke was massing over the bone-dry ridgeline.

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A bone-dry summer left the landscape parched and primed to ignite as Santa Ana winds roared through the region at 80 mph.

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The fires exploded in part because of a lack of winter rain, which left the landscape unusually bone-dry for January.

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