HAND-DYE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hand-dye mean? 

• HAND-DYE (verb)
  The verb HAND-DYE has 1 sense:

1. dye by hand

  Familiarity information: HAND-DYE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAND-DYE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dye by hand

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

This fabric is hand-dyed

Hypernyms (to "hand-dye" is one way to...):

dye (color with dye)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hand-dye"):

tie-dye (dye after knotting the fabric to produce an irregular pattern)

batik (dye with wax)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something