dry, dry out – remove the moisture from and make dry; “dry clothes”; “dry hair”
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desiccate – lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; “a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata”; “a desiccate romance”; “a prissy and emotionless creature…settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery”-C.J.Rolo
dull – lacking in liveliness or animation; “he was so dull at parties”; “a dull political campaign”; “a large dull impassive man”; “dull days with nothing to do”; “how dull and dreary the world is”; “fell back into one of her dull moods”
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