Dry and Fill

Dry

Dry verb - To make dry.

Fill is an antonym for dry in take moisture out of topic.

Nearby Words: drying, dryer, dryish

Fill

Fill verb - To put into (something) as much as can be held or contained.

Dry is an antonym for fill.

Nearby Words: filled, filling, filler

Common collocations

time dry time fill time

Both words in one sentence

  • Gold Fever When they do find the mine, the students catch Gold Fever so badly that some of them empty their canteens and fill them with gold ore ... and then find that their bus's engine was stolen and they have to hike out across a scorching dry desert.
    Source: Gold Fever
  • Sophisticated as Hell:James: [unzips the tent's door and begins reciting to the camera]Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the SkyI heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,'Awake, my Little ones, and fill the CupBefore Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.'[beat] Now fuck off.
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Fill or Dry. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/dry/fill.
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