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[ UK /ɡɹˈa‍ɪm/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹaɪm/ ]
VERB
  1. make soiled, filthy, or dirty
    don't soil your clothes when you play outside!
NOUN
  1. the state of being covered with unclean things

How To Use grime In A Sentence

  • Lyndsey Turner's punchy production intercuts scenes with a capella versions of hip-hop, rock and grime numbers, arranged by the musical director James Fortune. Posh; The Empire; Hair
  • The Lord ministered to her, offering unconditional love and acceptance and washing her clean from the grime of her experience. Growing Through Loss and Grief
  • The only sign of life there today came from a mouldy old caravan, all steamy windows and grimed with neglect, where a radio was playing Sunday morning music of the popular kind.
  • We creep the hill, flat on our bellies through yellowed grass and stone, black dirt grimed on our bright faces like powdered war paint. Along the Battlement
  • Algorisme being popularly reduced in OFr. to augorime, English also shows two forms, the popular augrime, ending in agrim, agrum, and the learned algorism which passed through many pseudo-etymological perversions, including a recent algorithm in which it is learnedly confused with Gr. ‘number.' Languagehat.com: MATHEMATICAL TERMS.
  • Who would have thought in the age of grime and dubstep that ballroom dancing would glide back into vogue? Times, Sunday Times
  • His clothes are begrimed with oil and dirt.
  • This perfected, water soluble cream completely removes makeup and grime, without leaving greasy residue.
  • It is subject to grease and grime from the hands, occasional coffee spills, cigarette ash, dead flies and sandwich crumbs.
  • He is barely recognisable among the grime, dressed in filthy rags and as anaemic and leaden as his surroundings.
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