Definitions for bone-dry

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Spelling: [bohn-drahy]
IPA: /ˈboʊnˈdraɪ/

Bone-Dry is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in bone-dry (-bdenory).

Definitions for bone-dry

adjective

  1. very dry.
  2. very thirsty.
  3. Slang. dry (def 17).
  4. Ceramics. (of clay) thoroughly dried.

Origin of bone-dry

First recorded in 1815-25

Examples for bone-dry

I mustnt do any more on that until it's bone-dry; so you may come down.

The lights of small restaurants glimmered faintly on the bone-dry pavement.

The sun blazed hotly, and the soft yellow bluffs of bone-dry earth reached down to the dry beds of one-time streams.

What could have propelled a stale, bone-dry story to the top of the Internet's importance arbiter?

The civil authorities of France would not be much use in helping the American army enforce a bone-dry order.

Also in his favor, the congressman has a dark, bone-dry sense of humor that plays well with media types.

After the corn is bone-dry it should, like all other vegetables and fruits, be conditioned.

But liquor came to be the curse of Alaska and now the country, of its own volition, has gone "bone-dry."

Fruits are dried only until leathery, whereas vegetables are dried until they are bone-dry.

I asked him if he meant that it was "bone-dry" like Kansas, or whether the rich could still get it?

Word Value for bone-dry
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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