Tumble-dry
verb (used with object), tumble-dried, tumble-drying.
1.
to dry (washing) in a clothes drier in which articles are rotated vertically through heated air.
verb -dries, -drying, -dried
1.
(transitive) to dry (laundry) in a tumble dryer
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