Verb:

पींछ डालना, पींछना, पींछकर सुखाना, शुष्क करना, सुखाना, सूखना,

Adjective:

थलचर, शराबबंदीवाला, उदासीन, रूखा, प्यासा, खंगर, नीरस, सूखा, शुष्क,

dries's Usage Examples:

The acacias and the Rosaceae yield their gums most abundantly when sickly and in an abnormal state, caused by a fulness of sap in the young tissues, whereby the new cells are softened and finally disorganized; the cavities thus formed fill with liquid, which exudes, dries and constitutes the gum.

During the rainy season there is a considerable body of water in these channels, but owing partly to rapid evaporation and partly to the porous character of the soil the surface of the country dries rapidly.

Stannous sulphide, SnS, is obtained as a lead-grey mass by heating tin with sulphur, and as a brown precipitate by adding sulphuretted hydrogen to a stannous solution; this is soluble in ammonium polysulphide, and dries to a black powder.

At such moments Princess Mary would think how intellectual work dries men up.

Red clay is the deposit peculiar to the abysmal area; 70 carefully investigated samples collected by the " Challenger " came from an average depth of 2730 fathoms, 97 specimens collected by the " Tuscarora " came from an average depth of 2860 fathoms, and 26 samples obtained by the " Albatross " in the Central Pacific came from an average depth of 2620 fathoms. Red clay has not yet been found in depths less than 2200 fathoms. The main ingredient of the deposit is a stiff clay which is plastic when fresh, but dries to a stony hardness.

The mushroom is a semi-deliquescent fungus which rapidly falls into putridity in decay, whilst the champignon dries up into a leathery substance in the sun, but speedily revives and takes its original form again after the first shower.

Great care is necessary to prevent the heaps from becoming too hot, in which case the clay becomes baked into hard lumps of brick-like material which cannot be broken up. With careful management, however, the clay dries and bakes, becoming slowly converted into lumps which readily crumble into a fine powder, in which state it is spread over and worked into the land at the rate of 40 loads per acre.

But their former tributaries no longer run their full course: the glacier-fed Zarafshan dries up amid the gardens of Bokhara soon after emerging from the highlands; and the Tejen and the Murghab lose themselves in the recesses of the Kara-kum desert.

m., but it is of varying size, and sometimes dries up in part.

It forms a dark-violet precipitate which dries to a greyish-violet powder.

Synonyms:

thirsty, adust, arid, sunbaked, dry-shod, sear, kiln-dried, scorched, wetness, semi-dry, baked, dried-out, shrivelled, desiccated, waterless, shriveled, air-dry, bone-dry, air-dried, bone dry, withered, sere, rainless, dried, dried-up, parched, semiarid,

Antonyms:

quieten, depersonalize, discharge, dryness, wet,