Usually means: Slightly moist, not fully dry.
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  1. damp-dry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. damp-dry, damp-dry: Collins English Dictionary
  3. damp-dry: Wiktionary
  4. damp-dry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. damp-dry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. damp-dry: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. damp-dry: Dictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (damp-dry)

▸ verb:  To dry something until it is only damp.

Similar:
drip-dry, dry off, dry out, desiccate, dampen, damp, dry up, fordry, dampen off, run dry, more...

Opposite:
arid, parched, dehydrated, desiccated

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Similar:
drip-dry, dry off, dry out, desiccate, dampen, damp, dry up, fordry, dampen off, run dry, more...

Opposite:
arid, parched, dehydrated, desiccated



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