Norwegian English Dictionary

Norsk - English

tørke in English:

1. dry dry


Dry your eyes.
After spending hours out in the cold winter wind, my skin got all chapped and dry.
I hung the laundry out to dry last night and by morning it had frozen hard as a rock.
The farmers complained that because of the dry weather there would be a poor harvest of winter grain.
In Singapore, practically right on the equator, the rainy and dry seasons aren't very clear cut.
Add the dry ingredients and stir until the mixture becomes a dough.
In one of my most loathed fever dreams, I had to unscramble a block of dry ramen with my mind.
Cold and dry, splendid sunshine, what beautiful winter weather!
Many European kitchens have scales because dry ingredients are measured by weight there, unlike in America, where they are measured by volume.
Just reading a computer manual is like practicing swimming on dry land.
Gentlemen, lift the toilet seat! Ladies also like to sit dry.
Throat and nose membranes hurt by dry air allow cold viruses to enter more easily. It is important to carry out sensible counter plans against the cold with heaters and against the dryness with humidifiers.
I'm so dry, I would give my own liver for a bottle of water.
A dry wine is simply a wine that has no residual sugar, meaning it isn’t sweet.
dry sleeping bag

2. drought drought


There had been no rain in Australia for three months, causing a terrible drought.
Now we have a good local solution for drought.
Many peasants died during the drought.
Unless it rains in Ethiopia soon, there could be severe drought problems.
Cities and provinces along the Yangtze River in central China are grappling with the country's worst drought in more than 50 years.
When there is a drought somewhere, there's not enough rainfall. In certain areas, a drought can last for weeks, months, sometimes even years!
drought worsens Zambia`s energy crisis
The drought destroyed many fields.
The government imposed restrictions on the use of water during the summer drought.
That's what drought does.
The drought is having a catastrophic effect on farming in the region.
Jaclyn was 14 years old and she was in her Masai family and there's a drought in Kenya.
Ethiopia has suffered a disaster as a result of the drought over the last few years.
Constant droughts are a real calamity for African farmers.
There have also been increased periods of drought, particularly in parts of Africa and Asia suffering from famine.

3. drying drying


Why are you drying your hair?
With no supply of water from trees, rainfalls diminish in time and the area keeps drying up.
Drying the washing on a fine day in the rainy season; I felt like it was already summer.