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: very dry
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Stephen Freeland’s pumpkins are growing in 14 acres of bone-dry soil. Asher Redd, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025 Allow the soil to go bone-dry before watering. Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 11 Oct. 2025 The high-altitude, bone-dry landscape, with its dazzling days and spectacularly starry nights, formed twenty million years ago. Literary Hub, 3 Oct. 2025 Many solid-state materials need bone-dry manufacturing environments or special atmospheres. Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bone-dry

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of bone-dry was in the 15th century

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“Bone-dry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bone-dry. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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