Occasional Word in Merechi: làri

Hello! I'm jumping on the bandwagon of word-a-day conlangy goodness, sortof, with my new Occasional Word in Merechi series. Herewith the first entry:

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làri ['la4i] adj. arid, dessicated; without moisture inside, dried out; used as an exaggeration for "thirsty".

I picked this word to start with because we've been experiencing a bit of a drought and very high temperatures on the East coast. The merechi have separate words for dry (on the surface) and dried-out (through and through). A lack of humidity in the air is làri, dried-out.

Examples:

enëtív jalàrisöp'n: Conditions are recently arid.

shiréata làri ki'màtav'n: The dessicated plant will die.