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line-dry

line-dry verb: to dry on a clothesline.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, sometimes, transitive) To dry on a clothesline.

Forms of line-dry

third-person singular presentline-dries
present participleline-drying
past participleline-dried
pastline-dried

Questions about line-dry

What does line-dry mean?
Line-dry means to dry on a clothesline.
What part of speech is line-dry?
Line-dry is a verb.
What is the past tense of line-dry?
The past tense of line-dry is line-dried.

Words near line-dry in the dictionary

  1. line-blues
  2. line-dance
  3. line-dances
  4. line-dried
  5. line-dries
  6. line-dry
  7. line-drying
  8. line-edit
  9. line-edited
  10. line-editing
  11. line-edits

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