GRIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grime mean? 

• GRIME (noun)
  The noun GRIME has 1 sense:

1. the state of being covered with unclean things

  Familiarity information: GRIME used as a noun is very rare.

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

1. make soiled, filthy, or dirty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being covered with unclean things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

dirt; filth; grease; grime; grunge; soil; stain

Hypernyms ("grime" is a kind of...):

dirtiness; uncleanness (the state of being unsanitary)

Derivation:

grime (make soiled, filthy, or dirty)

grimy (thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot)

• GRIME (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they grime    ... he / she / it grimes   
Past simple: grimed   
Past participle: grimed   
-ing form: griming   

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 "grime" is one way to...):

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

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

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

Derivation:

grime (the state of being covered with unclean things)

 Context examples 

“Later, Sir Oliver,” answered the old soldier, wiping his grimed face.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was, as the inspector had said, extremely dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its repulsive ugliness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Collar and shirt bore the grime of a long journey, and the hair bristled unkempt from the well-shaped head.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was repelled by those lacerated hands, grimed by toil so that the very dirt of life was ingrained in the flesh itself, by that red chafe of the collar and those bulging muscles.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Her face, too, was streaked with grime, and at the best she could never have been handsome, for she had the exact physical characteristics which Holmes had divined, with, in addition, a long and obstinate chin.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)