English > grime: 2 senses > verb 1, contact| Meaning | make soiled, filthy, or dirty. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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| Synonyms | dirty, soil, begrime, colly, bemire |
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| Narrower | blemish, spot | mar or impair with a flaw |
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| crock | Soil with or as with crock |
| foul | make unclean |
| mire, muck, mud, muck up | Soil with mud, muck, or mire |
| muddy, muddy up | dirty with mud |
| pollute, foul, contaminate | make impure |
| slime | Cover or stain with slime |
| smear | stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance |
| splash | Soil or stain with a splashed liquid / liquid |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
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| Opposite | clean, make clean | make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from |
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| Spanish | emporcar, enmugrecer, ensuciar, manchar |
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| Catalan | embrutar-se, embrutar, embrutir, empastifar, emporcar-se, enllardar-se, ensutzar, pastifejar, sollar, tacar |
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| Nouns | grime | the state of being covered with unclean things |
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