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drip-drying

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

Meaning of drip-dry

Verb

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

  1. To dry by hanging up wet.

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Questions about drip-drying

What is drip-drying the present participle and gerund of?
Drip-drying is the present participle and gerund of drip-dry.

Words near drip-drying in the dictionary

  1. drip torch
  2. drip torches
  3. drip-dried
  4. drip-dries
  5. drip-dry
  6. drip-drying
  7. drip-fed
  8. drip-feed
  9. drip-feeding
  10. drip-feeds
  11. dripfeed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drip-drying (page history and authors); drip-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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