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dryings
n. (plural of drying English)
Usage examples of "dryings".
Before the great dryings, the Sahara region had been densely forested and well watered, and home to many species of apes.
But with the climatic pump of the dryings, and in the lengthening rain shadow cast by the more remote Himalayas, the Sahara was becoming increasingly arid.