dry is on the Basic English 850 List.
drop - dry - dust
dry is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
drop - dry - due

Pronunciation change

Adjective change

Positive
dry

Comparative
drier

Superlative
driest

  1. If something is dry, it has no water or liquid on it.
    The Sahara desert is dry.

Verb change

Plain form
dry

Third-person singular
dries

Past tense
dried

Past participle
dried

Present participle
drying

(transitive & intransitive)

  1. To make something less wet.
    The clothes dried in the sun.
    I dried myself after my bath.