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towel

2 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. towel (verb)
  2. toweling (noun)

2towel

verb
toweled or towelledtowel·ing or towel·ling

Definition of TOWEL

transitive verb
: to rub or dry (as the body) with a towel
intransitive verb
: to use a towel to dry oneself <toweled down after swimming>
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First Known Use of TOWEL

circa 1839

Rhymes with TOWEL

cowl, dowel, foul, fowl, growl, howl, jowl, prowl, rowel, scowl, trowel, yowl

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