BEGRIME

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they begrime ... he / she / it begrimes

Past simple: begrimed

Past participle: begrimed

-ing form: begriming

Meaning:

Make soiled, filthy, or dirty

Example:

don't soil your clothes when you play outside!

Synonyms:

begrime; bemire; colly; dirty; grime; soil

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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