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spray-drying

spray-drying is the present participle and gerund of spray-dry.

Meaning of spray-dry

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.

Questions about spray-drying

What is spray-drying the present participle and gerund of?
Spray-drying is the present participle and gerund of spray-dry.

Words near spray-drying in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spray-drying (page history and authors); spray-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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