grime
noun
dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
grimed
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past participleof grime.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof grime.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
grimenoundirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
Example Sentences
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Peter's troubles and the damage he causes are terrible in close-up, but seen through a broader lens grimed up by reality, they're almost tolerable.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2020
Wong’s works are as outré as Tseng’s are hermetic, landscapes that obscure the painter and take in the men — usually men, mostly Latino — behind the grimed facades of Manhattan’s then-frayed edges.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2018
Scrap that off-brand toaster oven they’ve grimed up beyond recognition and buy them Cuisinart’s CSO-300 Steam Oven, capable of cutting cooking times by 40 percent.
From Newsweek
Somervell crawled out, greasy & grimed, wrench in hand, to salute his chief.
From Time Magazine Archive
A thin snow had fallen the night before and grimed the weeds.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
