overdry

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verb

To dry too much.

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Meanings

verboverdry (third-person singular simple present overdries, present participle overdrying, simple past and past participle overdried)

present singular third person overdries · participle present overdrying · participle past overdried · past overdried

  1. To dry too much.

    Such are puddings stuffed with blood, or otherwise composed; baked meats, soused indurate meats, fried and broiled, buttered meats, condite, powdered and over-dried; […]

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 2, subsection i

Origin

From over- + dry.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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