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TUMBLE DRY
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dry by spinning with hot air inside a cylinder
Example:
These fabrics are delicate and cannot be tumbled dry
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "tumble dry" is one way to...):
dry; dry out (remove the moisture from and make dry)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something