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hairdry

hairdry verb: to use a hairdryer on.

Verb

hairdry (third-person singular simple present hairdries, present participle hairdrying, simple past and past participle hairdried)

  1. To use a hairdryer on.
    Synonyms:
    blow-dry

Synonyms of hairdry

Forms of hairdry

third-person singular presenthairdries
present participlehairdrying
past participlehairdried
pasthairdried
alternative formhair dry
alternative formhair-dry

Origin of hairdry

Back-formation from hairdryer

Questions about hairdry

What does hairdry mean?
Hairdry means to use a hairdryer on.
What part of speech is hairdry?
Hairdry is a verb.
What is the past tense of hairdry?
The past tense of hairdry is hairdried.

Words near hairdry in the dictionary

  1. hairdressings
  2. hairdried
  3. hairdrier
  4. hairdriers
  5. hairdries
  6. hairdry
  7. hairdryer
  8. hairdryer treatment
  9. hairdryer treatments
  10. hairdryers
  11. hairdrying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hairdry (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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