dry off

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dry off

verb dries off · drying off · dried off

  1. transitive To make dry.
  2. intransitive To become dry. Drying off after the day of surfing in the afternoon summer sun of New Zealand, they remarked to each other how ironic their trip had been so far.
  3. transitive To cease milking a cow in preparation for calving. In an early study with cows producing very little milk at drying off, new infection rates were about equal whether cows were dried off abruptly or after a period of intermittent milking.

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verb to make dry

Françaisessuyer
Deutschabtrocknen
Русскийсуши́ть sušítʹ, высу́шивать vysúšivatʹ, вы́сушить výsušitʹ

verb to become dry

Deutschabtrocknen
Русскийсо́хнуть sóxnutʹ, высыха́ть vysyxátʹ, вы́сохнуть výsoxnutʹ

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@misc{dry_off_2026,
  title = {dry off},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dry%20off},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}