亚洲网紅露点

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bone-dry

[ bohn-drahy ]

adjective

  1. very dry.
  2. very thirsty.
  3. Ceramics. (of clay) thoroughly dried. dry.


bone-dry

adjective

  1. informal.
    1. completely dry

      a bone-dry well

    2. ( postpositive )

      the well was bone dry

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of bone-dry1

First recorded in 1815鈥25
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Officials believe the Palisades fire began around 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 7 as high winds sent flames racing over the bone-dry terrain.

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It warned that there was typically a large volume of "dead, bone-dry vegetation across large areas of countryside" at this time of year which acts as a fuel for fire.

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His bone-dry delivery makes it so that the sour is never too sharp and the sentimental is never too syrupy.

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A fire had ignited high in the hills of Pacific Palisades, and smoke was massing over the bone-dry ridgeline.

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A bone-dry summer left the landscape parched and primed to ignite as Santa Ana winds roared through the region at 80 mph.

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