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spray-dry

spray-dry verb: to convert (a liquid or slurry) into a powder by rapidly drying it with a hot gas.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To convert (a liquid or slurry) into a powder by rapidly drying it with a hot gas.

Forms of spray-dry

third-person singular presentspray-dries
present participlespray-drying
past participlespray-dried
pastspray-dried

Origin of spray-dry

From spray + dry.

Questions about spray-dry

What does spray-dry mean?
Spray-dry means to convert (a liquid or slurry) into a powder by rapidly drying it with a hot gas.
What part of speech is spray-dry?
Spray-dry is a verb.
What is the past tense of spray-dry?
The past tense of spray-dry is spray-dried.

Words near spray-dry in the dictionary

  1. spray tan
  2. spray tanning
  3. spray tans
  4. spray-dried
  5. spray-dries
  6. spray-dry
  7. spray-drying
  8. spray-on
  9. spray-ons
  10. spray-tan
  11. spray-tanned

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