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sun-dried

[ suhn-drahyd ]

adjective

  1. dried in the sun, as bricks or raisins.
  2. dried up or withered by the sun.


sun-dried

adjective

  1. dried or preserved by exposure to the sun
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sun-dried1

First recorded in 1590–1600
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Example Sentences

Grapes are sun-dried on straw for 10 to 12 days, then aged inside French oak barrels.

The southern Indians lived together in huge fortresses, built of sun-dried bricks, called adobe.

The better houses are built of black volcanic stone and the poorer houses of sun-dried brick.

Some were of clay only sun-dried, others of clay burned into pottery.

Such fire-balls, shot into the sun-dried canvas of the clipper, might go far towards leaving her bones ableach on Ulu Salama.

That summer we had ten in almost ten consecutive days, each of which menaced the mass of old sun-dried woodwork in which we lived.

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