airdrying

Letting moisture evaporate

Airdrying is letting something dry naturally through exposure to air rather than using heat or mechanical means.

Clothes can be airdried on a line, herbs airdried in bundles, hair airdried after washing: I'm airdrying my sweater to keep it from shrinking.

Also spelled as two words or hyphenated.

method

clothesline

Cord for air-drying laundry

airflow · breeze · draught · ambient · indoors · outdoors · patience · non-electric · sustainable · manual

preservation

jerky

Cured meat snack

raisins · prunes · figs · apricots · dates · stockfish · dehydration · curing · desiccation · shelf-stable

texture

crisp

Firm and breakable

papery · matte · hardened · desiccated · shriveled · flaky · stiff · rough · crackled · wrinkled

Opposites
drying method

airdryingblow-drying

Hair drying with heat

dehydrating · freeze-drying

moisture state

airdryingsoaking

Completely saturated with liquid

wetting · saturating · dampening · moistening · drenching

Family

air, dry, dried, dryness, drying, dryer, drier, dryly, dryable

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G