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dry-clean

dry-clean is the alternative spelling of dry clean.

Meaning of dry clean

Verb

dry clean (third-person singular simple present dry cleans, present participle dry cleaning, simple past and past participle dry cleaned)

  1. To clean clothes or other fabrics through a process that uses solvents and specialized equipment instead of using water.

Forms of dry-clean

third-person singular presentdry-cleans
present participledry-cleaning
past participledry-cleaned
pastdry-cleaned

Questions about dry-clean

What is dry-clean the alternative spelling of?
Dry-clean is the alternative spelling of dry clean.

Words near dry-clean in the dictionary

  1. dry well
  2. dry wells
  3. dry wors
  4. dry-aged
  5. dry-bulb temperature
  6. dry-clean
  7. dry-cleaned
  8. dry-cleaner
  9. dry-cleaners
  10. dry-cleaning
  11. dry-cleans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dry-clean (page history and authors); dry clean (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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