as in dirt
foul matter that mars the purity or cleanliness of something
this new product really cuts through grime
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as in to stain
to make dirty
countless hours of work were needed to clean the floors of the old warehouse that had been grimed from a century of use
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Recent Examples of grime
Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
The city needs to do a more thorough power wash, powerful enough to remove grime, and then sanitize.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025
Natural Cleaning Scrub If your pots and pans are coated with grime or have stubborn stains, try sprinkling spent coffee grounds over the spot and scrubbing the area with a sponge or scouring pad.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Mar. 2025
Watch out for slippery roads: The first half-hour of rain is when roads are slickest due to a mix of rain, grime, and oil.
—Bay Area Weather Report, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The music is British hip-hop—jungle, grime, sometimes short on funky groove.
—Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
The city needs to do a more thorough power wash, powerful enough to remove grime, and then sanitize.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025
Natural Cleaning Scrub If your pots and pans are coated with grime or have stubborn stains, try sprinkling spent coffee grounds over the spot and scrubbing the area with a sponge or scouring pad.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Mar. 2025
Watch out for slippery roads: The first half-hour of rain is when roads are slickest due to a mix of rain, grime, and oil.
—Bay Area Weather Report, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grime
Noun
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In fact, there’s plenty of dirt and animals trotting around the house — a tangible way of indicating the family’s lack of wealth compared to characters like Darcy and his friend, Charles Bingley.—
Abigail Lee,
Variety,
18 Apr. 2025
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Crew members come up to Landau to discuss the process of making the floor resemble real dirt and mud, whether a test-your-strength carnival machine can be struck in time with the music, as well as drafts of a digital rendering of the sky that will grace the LED screen at the back of the stage.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
Verb
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If Bonhoeffer’s example is used to justify more far-right Christian violence in America, that would be another tragedy — and a cruel irony that would stain the legacy of a man who gave up everything to confront a tyrant.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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Pérez's manager, Enrique Paulino, spoke to reporters at the scene, his shirt stained with blood.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The war settled into a brutal battle of attrition with limited movement along a frontline stretching for 600 miles through muck of eastern Ukraine.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
11 Mar. 2025
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The Clippers’ success lately isn’t just stemming from them making games ugly with their defense and slogging through the muck.—
Zach Harper,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
Verb
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For example, a small non-shedding dog that rarely goes outside won't dirty a bed nearly as fast as a large labarador that plays outside daily.—
Halee Miller Van Ryswyk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Apr. 2025
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Grease dirtied the handles of the ovens, the microwave ovens and the coolers.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Teams will eventually undertake soil studies and drone-based, multispectral ground sensing to measure potential improvements to soil quality and carbon capture capacity on farmland that uses these techniques.—
Robin Roenker,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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To minimize outdoor pollution during poor air quality, officials urged people to carpool; telecommute; reduce trips or take public transportation; slow down when driving on dirt roads; and stabilize loose soils.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Unlike a total solar eclipse, when the disk of the sun is completely blackened, an eclipsed moon does not vanish completely from the sky.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
11 Mar. 2025
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But the negro resents and utterly repudiates the effort to blacken his good name by asserting that assaults upon women are peculiar to his race.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Feb. 2025
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This insider will not only remain a secret to the staff, but will also help Ramsay infiltrate the restaurant after-hours for a dramatic nighttime black light kitchen investigation that reveals more filth and grossness than ever before.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Ultimately, what all of this research reveals is that the planet is dirty, even if the filth can be hard to see.—
Benji Jones,
Vox,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Grime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grime. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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