begrime

English

Etymology

From be- (“about, all over”) +‎ grime.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -aɪm

Verb

begrime (third-person singular simple present begrimes, present participle begriming, simple past and past participle begrimed)

(transitive) To make something dirty; to soil
- 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter VII, page 78:
  The smoke of the pine-wood fires […] had most effectually begrimed their features, and their dresses had not scrupled to partake of the same colouring.

Translations

make dirty

Bulgarian: изцапвам (bg) (izcapvam)
Catalan: ensutzar (ca)

Finnish: liata (fi), skeidata (fi) (slang)

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