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Webster 1913 Edition
Begrime
Be-grime′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Begrimed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Begriming
.] To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.
Books falling to pieces and
begrimed
with dust. Macaulay.
Webster 1828 Edition
Begrime
BEGRI'ME
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
begrime
begrime
English
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.
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