towel
/ˈtaʊ̯əl/ verb C2- To dry by using a towel. · He got out of the shower and toweled himself dry.
- To hit with a towel.
- To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug.
He/she/it towels · Past toweled · Past participle toweled · -ing form toweling
Verb forms
- Base form
- towel
- He/she/it
- towels
- Past
- toweled
- Past participle
- toweled
- -ing form
- toweling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Anne rose to her feet, with clasped hands, the tears still glistening on her cheeks; the dish towel she had been hemming slipped unheeded to the floor.
“With pleasure,” she answered, and brought a towel at once.
Then the Tin Woodman wept for several minutes, and she watched the tears carefully and wiped them away with the towel.
One towel passed round the throat and was secured at the back of the pillar.
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