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spin-dry

spin-dry verb: to dry in a spin dryer.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To dry in a spin dryer.

Forms of spin-dry

third-person singular presentspin-dries
present participlespin-drying
past participlespin-dried
pastspin-dried

Origin of spin-dry

From spin + dry. First use appears c. 1927 in the Saturday Evening Post.

Questions about spin-dry

What does spin-dry mean?
Spin-dry means to dry in a spin dryer.
What part of speech is spin-dry?
Spin-dry is a verb.
What is the past tense of spin-dry?
The past tense of spin-dry is spin-dried.

Words near spin-dry in the dictionary

  1. spin-doctored
  2. spin-dried
  3. spin-drier
  4. spin-driers
  5. spin-dries
  6. spin-dry
  7. spin-dryer
  8. spin-dryers
  9. spin-drying
  10. spin-lattice relaxation time
  11. spin-lattice relaxation times

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