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overdries

overdries is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overdry.

Meaning of overdry

Verb

overdry (third-person singular simple present overdries, present participle overdrying, simple past and past participle overdried)

  1. To dry too much.
    • Such are puddings stuffed with blood, or otherwise composed; baked meats, soused indurate meats, fried and broiled, buttered meats, condite, powdered and over-dried; […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section...

Questions about overdries

What is overdries the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overdries is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overdry.

Words near overdries in the dictionary

  1. overdribble
  2. overdribbled
  3. overdribbles
  4. overdribbling
  5. overdried
  6. overdries
  7. overdrift
  8. overdrifted
  9. overdrifting
  10. overdrifts
  11. overdrink

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overdries (page history and authors); overdry (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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