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dryfire

dryfire is the alternative spelling of dry fire.

Meaning of dry fire

Verb

dry fire (third-person singular simple present dry fires, present participle dry firing, simple past and past participle dry fired)

  1. To discharge a weapon without ammunition in the chamber.
    • Rob finished cleaning his empty gun then pointed it at an imaginary target and dry fired.2009, Debra Parmley, A Desperate Journey, →ISBN, page 32
  2. To draw and release a bow without an arrow loaded.

Forms of dryfire

third-person singular presentdryfires
present participledryfiring
past participledryfired
pastdryfired

Questions about dryfire

What is dryfire the alternative spelling of?
Dryfire is the alternative spelling of dry fire.

Words near dryfire in the dictionary

  1. dryers
  2. Dryes
  3. dryest
  4. dryfat
  5. dryfats
  6. dryfire
  7. dryfired
  8. dryfires
  9. dryfiring
  10. Dryfoos
  11. dryfoot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dryfire (page history and authors); dry fire (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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