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dry-cured

dry-cured is the simple past and past participle of dry-cure.

Meaning of dry-cure

Verb

dry-cure (third-person singular simple present dry-cures, present participle dry-curing, simple past and past participle dry-cured)

  1. (transitive) To preserve food using salt, and sometimes sodium nitrite.

Adjective

dry-cured (not comparable)

  1. Preserved by means of salt.

Questions about dry-cured

What does dry-cured mean?
Dry-cured means preserved by means of salt.
What is dry-cured the simple past and past participle of?
Dry-cured is the simple past and past participle of dry-cure.
What part of speech is dry-cured?
Dry-cured is an adjective.

Words near dry-cured in the dictionary

  1. dry-cleaner
  2. dry-cleaners
  3. dry-cleaning
  4. dry-cleans
  5. dry-cure
  6. dry-cured
  7. dry-cures
  8. dry-curing
  9. dry-dock
  10. dry-docks
  11. dry-erase

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