dry cleaning

See also: drycleaning and dry-cleaning

English

Noun

dry cleaning (uncountable)

1. The process of cleaning clothes and other fabrics without using water, instead using solvents and specialized equipment.

Alternative forms

• drycleaning
• dry-cleaning

Descendants

• Japanese: ドライクリーニング (dorai kurīningu)
• Korean: 드라이 클리닝 (deurai keullining)

Translations

process of cleaning without water

• Armenian: քիմմաքրում (hy) (kʻimmakʻrum)
• Catalan: neteja en sec f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乾洗／干洗 (zh) (gānxǐ), 干洗 (zh) (gānxǐ)

• Dutch: stomen (nl), ^{(please verify)} droogkuis (nl) m (Belgium)
• Finnish: kuivapesu (fi)
• French: nettoyage à sec m
• German: Trockenreinigung f, chemische Reinigung f
• Italian: lavaggio a secco m
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• Japanese: クリーニング (kurīningu), 乾燥洗濯 (かんそうせんたく, kansō sentaku), ドライクリーニング (dorai kurīningu)
• Korean: 세탁 (ko) (setak), 드라이 클리닝 (deurai keullining), 클리닝 (keullining)
• Malay: pencucian kering
• Mongolian: хими цэвэрлэгээ (ximi ceverlegee)
• Portuguese: lavagem a seco f
• Russian: хими́ческая чи́стка (ru) f (ximíčeskaja čístka), химчи́стка (ru) f (ximčístka)
• Spanish: limpieza en seco f
• Swedish: kemtvätt c

Verb

dry cleaning

1. present participle of dry clean

Alternative forms

• drycleaning
• dry-cleaning