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finger-drying

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

Meaning of finger-dry

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.

Questions about finger-drying

What is finger-drying the present participle and gerund of?
Finger-drying is the present participle and gerund of finger-dry.

Words near finger-drying in the dictionary

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

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