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ROUGH-DRY
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Irregular inflected form: rough-dried
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they rough-dry ... he / she / it rough-dries
Past simple: rough-dried
-ing form: rough-drying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dry without smoothing or ironing
Example:
rough-dry the laundry
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "rough-dry" is one way to...):
dry; dry out (remove the moisture from and make dry)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something