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overdry

overdry verb: to dry too much.

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...

Forms of overdry

third-person singular presentoverdries
present participleoverdrying
past participleoverdried
pastoverdried

Origin of overdry

From over- + dry.

Questions about overdry

What does overdry mean?
Overdry means to dry too much.
What part of speech is overdry?
Overdry is a verb.
What is the past tense of overdry?
The past tense of overdry is overdried.

Words near overdry in the dictionary

  1. overdrugged
  2. overdrugging
  3. overdrugs
  4. overdrunk
  5. overdrunken
  6. overdry
  7. overdrying
  8. overdub
  9. overdubbed
  10. overdubber
  11. overdubbers

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