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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



... had a shock. One of the women was working the handle of a pump that had been bone-dry for fifteen years—and a slender stream of clear water spilled into ...
— The Invaders • Benjamin Ferris
... broken, bushy country gave way to the sand, water became scarcer and scarcer, until it could only be obtained in small quantities by digging deep in the bone-dry ...
— A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari - Seven Tales of South-West Africa • Frederick Cornell


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