a piece of thick, absorbent cloth or paper that you use to dry your body or other things by soaking up water
After swimming, Maria wrapped a soft blue towel around her shoulders.
Please hang the kitchen towel on the hook so it can dry.
✦ Middle English towaille, from Old French toalel, from Latin tōga ‘cloak, garment’, later used for cloths.
to dry or wipe someone or something using a towel
The mother gently toweled her baby after the bath.
After practice, the players towel their equipment to prevent rust.
✦ Derived from the noun ‘towel’, first recorded as a verb in the late 19th century.
