dry-dock

1. 1.

   maneuver (a ship) into a drydock

   Synonymsdrydock

   Broaderdock

Questions about dry-dock

What does dry-dock mean?

dry-dock means "maneuver (a ship) into a drydock".

How many syllables are in dry-dock?

dry-dock has 2 syllables: dry--dock. The stress falls on "dock".

What is another word for dry-dock?

Close synonyms include drydock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dry-dock a common word?

dry-dock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.