Dry and Flood

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Dry

Dry verb - To make dry.
Usage example: the wind quickly dried their clothes
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Flood is an antonym for dry.
Nearby Words: drying, dryer, dryish

Flood

Flood verb - To cover with a flood.
Usage example: angry calls flooded the radio station
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Dry is an antonym for flood.
Nearby Words: flooded, flooding
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mail dry mail flood mail

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  • Gaia's Vengeance This is basically the main premise of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, where villain Teams Magma and Aqua actually threaten to use Groudon/Kyogre to either dry out the entire planet or flood it instead.
    Source: Gaia's Vengeance
  • Elemental Baggage However, she's able to summon a flood in the middle of a desert, even though there shouldn't be that much water vapor in the atmospheric column over a dry desert.
    Source: Elemental Baggage
  • Apocalypse How: Regional, class five — the ocean is about to flood the Mediterranean basin, which had been dry and inhabited for some time as the story begins.
    Source: Webcomic / xkcd Time
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