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n. - A deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall).

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Usage examples (20)
  • Adjective : arid land; an arid climate. ,arid farmland. ,an arid treatment of an exciting topic
  • During the first dream the dragons had spoken of Krynn's aridness and of Tarris's hidden ability to save people by finding liquid with a stick.
  • The combination of aridness related to the altitude and the long dry season and severe air pollution cause irritation of the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract.
  • Her own inward burning offset the heat of air and earth; a sense of the aridness her heart would know without Van's love once more returned, was counter to the...
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