"tumble dry" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: tumble dries [present, singular, third-person], tumble drying [participle, present], tumble dried [participle, past], tumble dried [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} tumble dry (third-person singular simple present tumble dries, present participle tumble drying, simple past and past participle tumble dried)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become dry by rolling about in the heated rotating drum of a clothes dryer. Tags: intransitive, transitive
    Sense id: en-tumble_dry-en-verb-en:dry_in_a_dryer_that_tumbles_things Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 66 34 Disambiguation of English predicates: 52 48 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 76 24
  2. To dry by spinning with hot air inside a cylinder.
    Sense id: en-tumble_dry-en-verb-en:dry_by_spinning_with_hot_air_inside_a_cylinder Categories (other): English predicates Disambiguation of English predicates: 52 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: tumble-dry

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