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towelling off

towelling off is the present participle and gerund of towel off.

Meaning of towel off

Verb

towel off (third-person singular simple present towels off, present participle (US) toweling off or (UK) towelling off, simple past and past participle (US) toweled off or (UK) towelled off)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To dry (oneself or another person or thing) completely, using a towel.
    • Once I towel off, I'll go back inside and get started.
    Synonyms:
    towel down

Questions about towelling off

What is towelling off the present participle and gerund of?
Towelling off is the present participle and gerund of towel off.

Words near towelling off in the dictionary

  1. towelled up
  2. towelless
  3. towellike
  4. towelling
  5. towelling down
  6. towelling off
  7. towelling up
  8. towellings
  9. Towells
  10. towelry
  11. towels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: towelling off (page history and authors); towel off (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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