Dry and Wash

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Dry

Dry verb - To make dry.
Usage example: the wind quickly dried their clothes
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Synonyms for Dry
Antonyms for Dry
Wash is an antonym for dry.
Nearby Words: drying, dryer, dryish

Wash

Wash verb - To make wet.
Usage example: rain washed the countryside for days on end
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Synonyms for Wash
Antonyms for Wash
Dry is an antonym for wash in bathe topic.
Nearby Words: washed, washing, washer, washroom, washable
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Common collocations

clothes dry clothes wash clothes
pot dry pot wash pot
underwear dry underwear wash underwear
laundry dry laundry wash laundry
Other words: pants, hands, dishes, ink.

Both words in one sentence

  • They have to undress him to wash and dry his clothes,but Dixie deliberately delays giving them back because she knows he can't leave naked and it'll force him to stay put a while and rest.
    Source: The Patient Has Left the Building
  • Rather darkly, she kept herself youthful and thin by, among other things, basically starving herself to anorexic levels so she could maintain her tiny waist, and letting her Rapunzel Hair grow to the point that it took hours to wash and dry it.
    Source: World's Most Beautiful Woman
  • Washy Watchy The Rugrats episode "Wash/Dry Story" had the babies taken to the laundromat.
    Source: Washy Watchy
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