fordry

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verb

To dry up; become dry.

OriginMiddle English fordrien ← Old English fordrūgian →
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Meanings

fordry1

verbfordry (third-person singular simple present fordries, present participle fordrying, simple past and past participle fordried)

present singular third person fordries · participle present fordrying · participle past fordried · past fordried

  1. intransitiveTo dry up; become dry.
  2. transitiveTo dry up; make dry.

fordry2

adjectivefordry (comparative fordrier, superlative fordriest)

comparative fordrier · superlative fordriest

  1. obsoleteVery dry; withered.

    1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale. Amid a tree fordry, as white as chalk, As Canacé was playing in her walk, There sat a falcon o'er her head full high, That with a piteous voice so gan to cry, […]

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

fordry · verb

  1. Old Englishfordrūgian“to become dry, wither”
  2. Middle Englishfordrien
  3. Englishfordry

From Middle English fordrien, fordruien, fordruȝen, from Old English fordrūgian (“to become dry, wither”), equivalent to for- + dry.

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fordry · adjective

  1. Middle Englishfordruye
  2. Englishfordry

From Middle English fordruye, equivalent to for- (“very, excessively”) + dry.

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Chicago

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