📖 D — The English dictionary · page 55

drenched — Everyday, meaning 1: soaked all through with water or another liquid.↗ Example: We got drenched in the sudden rain.↗ · The dog was drenched after its swim.↗ · The sailor was drenched by the waves.↗

drenching — Everyday, meaning 1: a heavy soaking with water; very wet.↗ Example: The drenching rain flooded the road.↗ · After his drenching he sat by the fire to get warm.↗ · We walked home in the drenching storm.↗

dress — Everyday, meaning 1: A piece of clothing that covers the body from the shoulders down to the legs, in one piece, often worn by girls and women.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To put clothes on yourself or someone else: get dressed.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To wear clothes of a certain kind: dress smartly, dress up.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Clothes of a certain style, uncountable: school dress, fancy dress.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To dress a wound is to clean it and cover it with a bandage.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To dress food is to add a sauce: dress a salad.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: The outward appearance or form in which a book or work is presented.↗ Example: Get dressed — we're leaving in ten minutes!↗ · She wore a blue dress to the party.↗ · We dressed up as pirates for the fancy dress party.↗ · Dress warmly; it's snowing.↗ · The nurse dressed the cut with a clean bandage.↗ · Mum dressed the salad with olive oil.↗ · The dress rehearsal is the day before the play.↗ · The baby can't dress himself yet.↗ · The title agreed with the dress.↗ · And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.↗ (Torah GEN.2.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto the servant; and he hastened to dress it.↗ (Torah GEN.18.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.↗ (Torah DEU.28.39, JPS 1917)↗ · Then David sent home to Tamar, saying: 'Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.'↗ (Prophets 2SA.13.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah: 'I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a dresser of sycamore-trees; (Prophets AMO.7.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal: 'Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under.'↗ (Prophets 1KI.18.25, JPS 1917)↗

dresseth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «dresseth» means «dresses», a form of «dress».↗ e.g. A piece of clothing that covers the body from the shoulders down to the legs, in one piece, often worn by girls and women.↗ Example: And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices; every morning, when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn it.↗ (Torah EXO.30.7, JPS 1917)

dressing — Everyday, meaning 1: A sauce, usually of oil, vinegar or cream, poured over salad: «salad dressing».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A covering such as a pad or bandage put on a wound to protect it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (US) Stuffing for a turkey or chicken.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) Putting clothes on.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Getting a salad, a wound, or a shop window ready: «window dressing».↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A dressing-gown is a loose robe worn over pyjamas or nightclothes.↗ Example: Pour the dressing over the salad.↗ · The nurse put a clean dressing on the cut.↗ · (US) We had turkey with dressing at Thanksgiving.↗ · Hurry up, you're still dressing!↗ · Put your dressing gown on, it's cold.↗ · The actors changed in the dressing room.↗ · The coach gave the team a real dressing-down after they lost.↗ · The General was walking about in his dressing-gown.↗

dressmaker — Everyday, meaning 1: a person whose job is to make dresses and other clothes for people.↗ Example: The dressmaker sewed a blue dress for the princess.↗ · My aunt is a dressmaker in town.↗ · The dressmaker measured the girl for her new frock.↗

drey — Everyday, meaning 1: A drey is the nest of a squirrel, built high in a tree from twigs, leaves and moss.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is round like a ball, with a soft lining inside where the squirrel sleeps and keeps its babies warm.↗ Example: We spotted a drey high up in the oak tree.↗ · Grey squirrels build their dreys from twigs and leaves.↗ · In winter the drey is easy to see because the branches are bare.↗ · Baby squirrels are born in the drey.↗ · A drey looks like a messy ball of sticks.↗ · The squirrel ran up the trunk and disappeared into its drey.↗ · Our class drew a map of all the dreys in the park.↗ · A bird's nest is open on top, but a drey usually has a roof.↗

dribble — Everyday, meaning 1: To let liquid, especially spit, run slowly out of your mouth: babies dribble.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of liquid) To fall or flow slowly in drops or a thin stream.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (sport) To move a ball along by giving it many small kicks (football) or bounces (basketball) while running.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun) A small, thin stream of liquid, or spit coming from the mouth.↗ Example: The baby dribbled all over his bib.↗ · She dribbled the ball past three defenders.↗ · Water dribbled from the leaky tap.↗ · The basketball player dribbled to the hoop.↗ · A dribble of honey ran down the jar.↗ · The dog dribbled when it smelled the sausages.↗ · We practised dribbling round the cones in PE.↗

dried — Everyday, meaning 1: Made dry by taking away water or wetness.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of food) With the water taken out so it keeps a long time, like dried fruit or dried peas.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (dried up) No longer having water, as a river; or no longer having ideas or words.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Made to vanish or come to an end, as tears are dried up.↗ Example: I dried my hands on the towel.↗ · The puddles dried up in the sun.↗ · Raisins are dried grapes.↗ · We dried flowers by pressing them in a book.↗ · The washing dried quickly in the wind.↗ · When the salt water dried, salt crystals were left.↗ · The river dried up in the long hot summer.↗ · He wiped his tears and dried his eyes.↗ · A new desire dried them quickly away.↗ · but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all; we have nought save this manna to look to.' — (Torah NUM.11.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.↗ (Torah GEN.8.7, JPS 1917)↗ · he shall abstain from wine and strong drink: he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.↗ (Torah NUM.6.3, JPS 1917)↗ · I am weary of my crying; my throat is dried; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.↗ (Writings PSA.69.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.↗ (Prophets 1KI.17.7, JPS 1917)↗ · The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.↗ (Prophets JOL.1.10, JPS 1917)↗

drier — Everyday, meaning 1: Drier is the comparative of dry: having less water or wetness than something else.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A drier (often spelled dryer) is a machine that dries things, like a clothes dryer or a hair dryer.↗ Example: The desert is drier than the jungle.↗ · My towel is drier than yours.↗ · This summer was drier than last summer.↗ · Put the wet clothes in the dryer.↗ · Today is drier, so we can play outside.↗ · Which cloth is drier after five minutes in the sun?↗

drift — Everyday, meaning 1: To drift means to be carried slowly along by water or air, without control.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To drift means to move or change slowly without a plan: drift off to sleep, drift apart.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A drift is a big pile of snow or sand blown by the wind.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The drift of what someone says is its general meaning.↗ Example: The boat drifted down the river.↗ · Leaves drifted slowly to the ground.↗ · I drifted off to sleep during the film.↗ · The snow made huge drifts by the door.↗ · Don't let your inflatable drift out to sea.↗ · The continents drift very slowly.↗ · Do you get my drift?↗ · The boat drifted farther and farther away.↗

driftwood — Everyday, meaning 1: pieces of wood that the sea or a river has carried and left on the shore.↗ Example: We found driftwood along the shore.↗ · The children built a fire with driftwood.↗ · The waves left driftwood on the sand.↗

drill — Everyday, meaning 1: A tool or machine for making holes in wood, metal, stone or teeth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A practice of what to do in an emergency.↗ e.g. "a fire drill".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Repeated practice to learn something well.↗ e.g. "a spelling drill".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: As a verb, to make a hole with a drill, or to train by repeating.↗ Example: We had a fire drill at school today.↗ · Dad used a drill to put up the shelf.↗ · The dentist drilled out the hole in my tooth.↗ · The coach made us do passing drills.↗ · In an earthquake drill we drop, cover and hold on.↗ · Workers drilled deep to find water.↗ · You know the drill: shoes off at the door.↗

drily — Everyday, meaning 1: In a funny way that seems serious, with a straight face (dry humour).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a dry way, without water or wetness (rare).↗ Example: «Oh, brilliant,» said Dad drily, as the rain came down on our picnic.↗ · «Lovely weather for ducks,» Grandpa remarked drily.↗ · She smiled drily at his excuse.↗ · «I'm sure the homework ate itself,» the teacher said drily.↗ · He answered drily, without a smile.↗ · The comedian spoke drily, which made it even funnier.↗ · ‘Top Off,’ said the Cat drily.↗

drink — Everyday, meaning 1: To drink is to take water, milk, juice or another liquid into your mouth and swallow it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A drink is something you drink, or an amount of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: For grown-ups, «to drink» can mean to drink alcohol.↗ Example: She drinks 2 glasses of milk a day.↗ · He drank 300 ml of juice.↗ · Each drink costs $2.↗ · How much water is left after he drinks 1 liter?↗ · Drink water after running.↗ · Can I have a drink, please?↗ · Never drink anything from an unknown bottle.↗ · Plants drink water through their roots.↗ · Quick, give me something to drink.↗ · And they made their father drink wine that night.↗ (Torah GEN.19.33, JPS 1917)↗ · And they made their father drink wine that night also.↗ (Torah GEN.19.35, JPS 1917)↗ · So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.↗ (Torah GEN.24.46, JPS 1917)↗ · So Ahab went up to eat and to drink.↗ (Prophets 1KI.18.42, JPS 1917)↗ · Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.↗ (Writings SNG.5.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.↗ (Prophets 1KI.19.6, JPS 1917)↗

drinkable — Everyday, meaning 1: Drinkable water or drink is safe to drink.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Drinkable can also mean pleasant enough to drink, not too hot, sour or strong.↗ Example: Is this tap water drinkable?↗ · Sea water is not drinkable because it is too salty.↗ · They boiled the stream water to make it drinkable.↗ · Only a small part of the Earth's water is drinkable.↗ · The tea is drinkable now that it has cooled down.↗ · In the story they found a spring of cold, drinkable water.↗ · The sign said «Water not drinkable» above the tap.↗

drinker — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person who drinks something, here someone who drinks a lot of wine.↗ Example: Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.↗ (Prophets JOL.1.5, JPS 1917)↗

drinketh — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «drinketh» means «drinks», a form of «drink».↗ e.g. To drink is to take water, milk, juice or another liquid into your mouth and swallow it.↗ Example: Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.'↗ (Torah GEN.44.5, JPS 1917) · but the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water as the rain of heaven cometh down;↗ (Torah DEU.11.11, JPS 1917)

drip — Everyday, meaning 1: To drip means to fall in small drops, or to let drops fall.↗ A dripping tap lets out water drop by drop.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A drip is one drop, or the sound of drops.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A drip in a hospital puts liquid slowly into a patient's body.↗ Example: The tap drips 5 drops a second.↗ · Water drips into a bucket at 2 liters an hour.↗ · How much water drips out in a day?↗ · 30 ml dripped from the bottle.↗ · Fix the dripping tap to save water.↗ · Rain dripped from the roof.↗ · The ice cream was dripping down my hand.↗ · The nurse checked the patient's drip.↗ · The water dripped from the straw mat which she had bound round her body, and from her gown.↗ · All hands shall be slack, and all knees shall drip with water.↗ (Prophets EZK.7.17, JPS 1917)↗

dripping — Everyday, meaning 1: Dripping means falling in small drops, or letting drops fall: a dripping tap.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Dripping wet means extremely wet.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Dripping with something means covered in a lot of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In British English, dripping is the fat that comes out of meat when it is roasted.↗ Example: The tap is dripping; please turn it off.↗ · I came home dripping wet from the rain.↗ · Ice cream was dripping down my hand.↗ · Water was dripping from the roof.↗ · He was dripping with sweat after the race.↗ · A dripping tap can waste lots of water.↗ · Grandma cooked potatoes in beef dripping.↗ · Dripping with his recent plunge he sat with chattering teeth within his unfired wigwam.↗