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blow-drying

blow-drying is the present participle and gerund of blow-dry.

Meaning of blow-dry

Verb

blow-dry (third-person singular simple present blow-dries, present participle blow-drying, simple past and past participle blow-dried)

  1. (ambitransitive) To dry with a hair dryer.
    • Use a couple of large Velcro rollers at the crown while you blow-dry to add volume, said Patrick Melville, an owner of the Warren-Tricomi salon in New York.2005 May 26, Sally Wadyka, “Rapunzels of a Certain Age”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015

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Questions about blow-drying

What is blow-drying the present participle and gerund of?
Blow-drying is the present participle and gerund of blow-dry.

Words near blow-drying in the dictionary

  1. blow-driers
  2. blow-dries
  3. blow-dry
  4. blow-dryer
  5. blow-dryers
  6. blow-drying
  7. blow-drys
  8. blow-flies
  9. blow-fly
  10. blow-hard
  11. blow-hards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blow-drying (page history and authors); blow-dry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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