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finger-dry

finger-dry verb: to dry hair by lifting, separating, and shaping the strands with the fingers instead of using a brush or comb.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To dry hair by lifting, separating, and shaping the strands with the fingers instead of using a brush or comb.

Forms of finger-dry

third-person singular presentfinger-dries
present participlefinger-drying
past participlefinger-dried
pastfinger-dried
alternative formfinger dry

Questions about finger-dry

What does finger-dry mean?
Finger-dry means to dry hair by lifting, separating, and shaping the strands with the fingers instead of using a brush or comb.
What part of speech is finger-dry?
Finger-dry is a verb.
What is the past tense of finger-dry?
The past tense of finger-dry is finger-dried.

Words near finger-dry in the dictionary

  1. finger-combs
  2. finger-counting
  3. finger-countings
  4. finger-dried
  5. finger-dries
  6. finger-dry
  7. finger-drying
  8. finger-fed
  9. finger-fish
  10. finger-fishes
  11. finger-four

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