"sun-dry" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sun-dry.wav Forms: sun-dries [present, singular, third-person], sun-drying [participle, present], sun-dried [participle, past], sun-dried [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} sun-dry (third-person singular simple present sun-dries, present participle sun-drying, simple past and past participle sun-dried)
  1. (transitive) To dry in the sun, especially food. Tags: transitive Related terms: sun-dried Translations (dry in the sun, especially food): 曬乾 /晒干 (shàigān) (Chinese Mandarin), aurinkokuivata (Finnish), essiccare al sole (Italian), soltorka (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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