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:

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