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smoke-dried

smoke-dried is the simple past and past participle of smoke-dry.

Meaning of smoke-dry

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To cure or dry foodstuffs by means of smoke.

Adjective

smoke-dried

  1. That has been cured or dried in smoke.
    • All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 110

Questions about smoke-dried

What does smoke-dried mean?
Smoke-dried means that has been cured or dried in smoke.
What is smoke-dried the simple past and past participle of?
Smoke-dried is the simple past and past participle of smoke-dry.
What part of speech is smoke-dried?
Smoke-dried is an adjective.

Words near smoke-dried in the dictionary

  1. smoke-blowers
  2. smoke-colored pewee
  3. smoke-colored pewees
  4. smoke-detector
  5. smoke-detectors
  6. smoke-dried
  7. smoke-dries
  8. smoke-dry
  9. smoke-drying
  10. smoke-easies
  11. smoke-easy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smoke-dried (page history and authors); smoke-dry (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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