BEGRIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does begrime mean? 

• BEGRIME (verb)
  The verb BEGRIME has 1 sense:

1. make soiled, filthy, or dirty

  Familiarity information: BEGRIME used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEGRIME (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they begrime    ... he / she / it begrimes   
Past simple: begrimed   
Past participle: begrimed   
-ing form: begriming   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make soiled, filthy, or dirty

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

begrime; bemire; colly; dirty; grime; soil

Context example:

don't soil your clothes when you play outside!

Hypernyms (to "begrime" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "begrime"):

foul (make unclean)

contaminate; foul; pollute (make impure)

smear (stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance)

slime (cover or stain with slime)

muddy; muddy up (dirty with mud)

splash (soil or stain with a splashed liquid)

mire; muck; muck up; mud (soil with mud, muck, or mire)

crock (soil with or as with crock)

blemish; spot (mar or impair with a flaw)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

I knew Mr. Rochester; though the begrimed face, the disordered dress (his coat hanging loose from one arm, as if it had been almost torn from his back in a scuffle), the desperate and scowling countenance, the rough, bristling hair might well have disguised him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)