held a gun to ones head (verb) force one's hand: prompt someone to reveal or do something
Sinonime: anhydrous, arid, athirst, baked, bald, bare, barren, bone-dry, dehydrated, depleted, desert, desiccant, desiccated, drained, dried-up, droughty, dusty, evaporated, exhausted, hard, impoverished, juiceless, not irrigated, parched, rainless, sapless, sapped, sear, sere, shriveled, stale, thirsty, torrid, unmoistened, waterless