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tumble dries

tumble dries is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tumble dry.

Meaning of tumble dry

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To make or become dry by rolling about in the heated rotating drum of a clothes dryer.
    • hand wash only; tumble dry low
  2. To dry by spinning with hot air inside a cylinder.

Questions about tumble dries

What is tumble dries the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tumble dries is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tumble dry.

Words near tumble dries in the dictionary

  1. tumble
  2. tumble down
  3. tumble dried
  4. tumble drier
  5. tumble driers
  6. tumble dries
  7. tumble dry
  8. tumble dryer
  9. tumble dryers
  10. tumble drying
  11. tumble home

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tumble dries (page history and authors); tumble 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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