"blow-dry" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: blow-dries [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} blow-dry (plural blow-dries)
  1. An instance of blow-drying
    Sense id: en-blow-dry-en-noun-HcVSPcs4

Verb

Forms: blow-dries [present, singular, third-person], blow-drying [participle, present], blow-dried [participle, past], blow-dried [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} blow-dry (third-person singular simple present blow-dries, present participle blow-drying, simple past and past participle blow-dried)
  1. To dry with a hair dryer Categories (topical): Hair Derived forms: blowdryer, blow-dryer Translations (dry with a hair dryer): føntørre (Danish), foehner [Switzerland] (French), föhnen (German), суши́ть фе́ном (sušítʹ fénom) [imperfective] (Russian), просуши́ть фе́ном (prosušítʹ fénom) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-blow-dry-en-verb-Wnhwvfwr Disambiguation of Hair: 26 74 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 67 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 33 67 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 32 68

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for blow-dry meaning in English (2.6kB)

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