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tie-dying

tie-dying is the present participle and gerund of tie-dye.

Meaning of tie-dye

Verb

tie-dye (third-person singular simple present tie-dyes, present participle tie-dyeing or tie-dying, simple past and past participle tie-dyed)

  1. To tie strings around (fabric or clothing) and then dye it, in such a manner that the tied parts do not get colored.
    • Sebastian adds that he’s been living in California, in a tent, where he met a lady who tie-dyes – “a cloth house is all you need if you’ve got love.”2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian

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Questions about tie-dying

What is tie-dying the present participle and gerund of?
Tie-dying is the present participle and gerund of tie-dye.

Words near tie-dying in the dictionary

  1. tie-downs
  2. tie-dye
  3. tie-dyed
  4. tie-dyeing
  5. tie-dyes
  6. tie-dying
  7. tie-in
  8. tie-ins
  9. tie-out
  10. tie-outs
  11. tie-up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tie-dying (page history and authors); tie-dye (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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