Materials
Synonyms for dry
Synonyms for dry: desiccate and ironic. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for dry
Interchangeable with dry in this sense
Audited under dry's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one dry carries in that sense.
- desiccateverb, in the sense "to remove moisture from"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name dry as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- ironicironic is an adjective in the sense "humorously sarcastic or mocking"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under dry and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
to remove moisture from
The kiln will dry the greenware slowly, drawing all remaining moisture from the clay before firing.
The true synonym
desiccate
Same sentence, swapped: The kiln will desiccate the greenware slowly, drawing all remaining moisture from the clay before firing.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for dry in the sentence quoted.
- temper
- vitrify
- glaze
Where dry turns up in the game
dry is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where dry is the trap
- juicyadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is moist, in the sense "full of juice", so dry is there to be ruled out.
- roughadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is rocky, in the sense "full of hardship or trials", and dry is one of the three tiles that lose.
- roughadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is pugnacious, in the sense "ready and able to resort to force or violence", and dry is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play dry
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dry reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because materials is the company dry keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. dry carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.