Grime

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Black dirt or soot, especially such dirt clinging to or ingrained in a surface.
  • v. To cover with black dirt or soot; begrime.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
  • n. A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.
  • v. To begrime; to cake with dirt
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.
  • v. To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Foul matter; dirt; soil; foulness, especially of a surface; smuttiness.
  • To cover with dirt; soil; befoul; begrime.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the state of being covered with unclean things
  • v. make soiled, filthy, or dirty
  • Verb Form
    grimed    grimes    griming   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dirt   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dime    Lyme    Time    anticrime    chime    climb    crime    dime    kime    lime   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    soot    Italo-    filth    grease    slime    perspiration    dirt    mildew    droppings    dung