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SPIN-DRY (spin-dried)
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Irregular inflected form: spin-dried
Dictionary entry overview: What does spin-dry mean?
• SPIN-DRY (verb)
The verb SPIN-DRY has 1 sense:
1. dry (clothes) by spinning and making use of centrifugal forces
Familiarity information: SPIN-DRY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they spin-dry ... he / she / it spin-dries
Past simple: spin-dried
Past participle: spin-dried
-ing form: spin-drying
... he / she / it spin-dries Past simple: spin-dried
Past participle: spin-dried
-ing form: spin-drying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dry (clothes) by spinning and making use of centrifugal forces
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "spin-dry" is one way to...):
dry; dry out (remove the moisture from and make dry)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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