Grime

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  • noun. Black dirt or soot, especially such dirt clinging to or ingrained in a surface.
  • transitive verb. To cover with black dirt or soot; begrime.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Foul matter; dirt; soil; foulness, especially of a surface; smuttiness.
  • To cover with dirt; soil; befoul; begrime.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.
  • transitive verb. To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
  • noun. A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.
  • verb. To begrime; to cake with dirt
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the state of being covered with unclean things
  • verb. make soiled, filthy, or dirty
    • Word Usage
    "She wore a bright yellow apron covered in grime and pizza toppings, and dried sarcasm stained her red sleeves."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dirtiness  uncleanness  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dime  Lyme  Time  anticrime  chime  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Italo-  cobweb  corrosion  dampness  dirt  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    begrime  bemire  bemud  besmoke  besoil  
    verb-form
    grimed  grimes  griming  
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