Antonyms for dryingdry·ing

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1. dryingadjective

   Synonyms:
   desiccative, exsiccative, desiccatory, desiccant, exsiccant, evaporative

2. dryingnoun

   Synonyms:
   desiccation, exsiccation, evaporation, torrefaction, arefaction

   Associated words:
   desiccator, exsiccator, desiccative, evaporator, kiln

How to use drying in a sentence?

1. Pam Brown:

   A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

2. Ernest Hemingway:

   All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

3. Andy Finton:

   We're seeing stressed trees that haven't had enough precipitation and are losing their leaves earlier, so leaves are withering, they're drying up, and doing that fall color change before those crisp fall nights.

4. Scott C. Holstad:

   we sweat through our doldrums somehow, sheer insane boredom; society can no longer focus and my poems keep drying up and blowing away.

5. Nikwax McLean:

   Down-specific gear like jackets and sleeping bags require machine drying, no amount of air drying will get those down clumps to break apart.

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