| Drying 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dry. 2. (a.) Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room. 3. (a.) Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry. Thesaurus Entries Sanforizing, air-drying, anhydration, atrophy, attenuation, blast-freezing, bottling, brining, canning, consumption, corning, curing, dehumidification, dehydrating, dehydration, desiccant, desiccation, desiccative, drainage, dry-curing, drying up, emaceration, emaciation, embalming, evaporation, evaporative, exsiccant, exsiccative, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, insolation, irradiation, jerking, marination, mummification, parching, pickling, potting, preshrinkage, quick-freezing, refrigeration, salting, searing, seasoning, shrinkage, shrinking, shriveling, siccative, smoking, stuffing, taxidermy, thinning, tinning, wasting, withering |