DIRTIED

DIRTY

dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire

(verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty; “don’t soil your clothes when you play outside!”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

dirtied

simple past tense and past participle of dirty

Anagrams

• tiddier

Source: Wiktionary


DIRTY

Dirt"y, a. [Compar. Dirtier; superl. Dirtiest.]

1. Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white. Spenser.

2. Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color. Locke.

3. Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. The creature's at his dirty work again. Pope.

4. Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather. Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea. M. Arnold.

Syn.

– Nasty; filthy; foul. See Nasty.

Dirt"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dirtied; p. pr. & vb. n. Dirtying.]

1. To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.

2. To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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