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ROUGH-DRY (rough-dried)
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Irregular inflected form: rough-dried
Dictionary entry overview: What does rough-dry mean?
• ROUGH-DRY (verb)
The verb ROUGH-DRY has 1 sense:
1. dry without smoothing or ironing
Familiarity information: ROUGH-DRY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they rough-dry ... he / she / it rough-dries
Past simple: rough-dried
Past participle: rough-dried
-ing form: rough-drying
... he / she / it rough-dries Past simple: rough-dried
Past participle: rough-dried
-ing form: rough-drying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dry without smoothing or ironing
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
rough-dry the laundry
Hypernyms (to "rough-dry" is one way to...):
dry; dry out (remove the moisture from and make dry)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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