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top-dress

top-dress verb: to cover a surface with loose material; especially to cover newly-sown seeds with a light dressing of soil or fertilizer.

Verb

top-dress (third-person singular simple present top-dresses, present participle top-dressing, simple past and past participle top-dressed)

  1. To cover a surface with loose material; especially to cover newly-sown seeds with a light dressing of soil or fertilizer

Forms of top-dress

third-person singular presenttop-dresses
present participletop-dressing
past participletop-dressed
pasttop-dressed

Questions about top-dress

What does top-dress mean?
Top-dress means to cover a surface with loose material; especially to cover newly-sown seeds with a light dressing of soil or fertilizer.
What part of speech is top-dress?
Top-dress is a verb.
What is the past tense of top-dress?
The past tense of top-dress is top-dressed.

Words near top-dress in the dictionary

  1. top-drain
  2. top-drained
  3. top-draining
  4. top-drains
  5. top-drawer
  6. top-dress
  7. top-dressed
  8. top-dresses
  9. top-dressing
  10. top-end
  11. top-fermenting

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