| Example in Catalan | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Fins llavors haurem d'eixugar la roba. | Hmm! It'll take till midnight to dry our clothes. |
| Sisplau, permeti'm que vagi a la cuina a eixugar-li això. | Er, please, let me just go to the kitchen and dry that off for you. |
| - M'estava eixugant les mans. | I was drying my hands. You're supposed to wash them first. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | جأف,جاف, جف, نشف, يبس | Dutch | afdrogen, drogen, drogeren, droogmaken, droogvallen, indrogen, opdrogen, uitdrogen |
| English | dry | Esperanto | sekigi, sekiĝi |
| Estonian | kuivama, kuivatama, tahendama | Faroese | torna |
| Finnish | kelottua, kuivata, kuivatella, kuivattaa, kuivua | French | secher, sécher |
| German | dörren, trocknen | Greek | στεγνώνω |
| Hungarian | szárad, szárít | Icelandic | þerra, þorna, þurrka |
| Italian | alidire, asciugare, disseccare, essiccare, rinsecchire, seccare | Japanese | 乾く, 乾燥, 干る |
| Lithuanian | džiovinti, džiūti, išdžiovinti, išdžiūti, nudžiūti | Macedonian | се суши, суши |
| Norwegian | tørke | Polish | dosuszać, nasuszyć, obeschnąć, osuszać, osuszyć, posuszyć, schnąć, suszyć, ususzyć, wyschnąć, wysuszyć, wysychać, zasuszyć |
| Portuguese | secar | Quechua | ch'akichiy, ch'akiy |
| Romanian | usca, zvânta | Russian | высушивать, высушиваться, высушить, высушиться, осушать, осушить, сохнуть, сушить, сушиться |
| Spanish | enjugar, enjutar, secar | Thai | ตาก, ผึ่ง |
| Turkish | kurumak | Vietnamese | hơ |