grime
noun
dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
griming
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present participleof grime.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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There was no gilding the lily, or rather the opposite: no griming the garbage can.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2016
Just as the cakes became heavier, tougher, more ordinary, as the months passed, so the whole enterprise suffered gradually from that coarsening and griming which seems an inevitable result of Chicago use.
From One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick
He picked up the book, griming the dainty pages as he turned them with his rough fingers, glancing at the headings.
From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon
The confused indigene, driven by admonition and shame put on the hot and griming stuffs, and finally, had them kept on him by statute.
From Nonsenseorship by G. G. Putnam
Tears gleamed on the stern fighter's cheeks, there in the ghostly blue firelight—tears that washed little courses through the dust and sand now griming his face.
From The Flying Legion by George Allan England
