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View definitions for arid

arid

adjective as in dry

adjective as in uninterested, spiritless

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In fact, unless humans significantly reduce burning fossil fuels, the international team of scientists found that by 2080 to 2100, anywhere from 7 percent to more than one-third of frog habitats will become too arid for survival.

From Salon

Think about how vulnerable those hundreds of thousands of displaced children are in Lebanon, one of the most arid countries in the world.

They would wait under the tree on a late September day until a smuggler led them to a gap in the wall, where 70 miles of arid terrain stretched between them and Tucson.

All sorts of pines, shrubs and so much more in a region usually thought of as arid.

The Central Valley would deconstruct into a patchwork dotted with arid, tumbleweed-filled dust zones.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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