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overdrying

overdrying is the present participle and gerund 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 overdrying

What is overdrying the present participle and gerund of?
Overdrying is the present participle and gerund of overdry.

Words near overdrying in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overdrying (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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