Dirtying
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Dirtying is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of dirty.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of dirty.
More Meanings
- A soiling or making dirty.
Example Sentences
Once understood, not as the venereal-disease jokes they pretend to be, but as food-dirtyings and fecal dirtyings in the attempt to defile the image of the hidden mother, these jokes do not really seem very frightening, or even disgusting, […]
Word Forms
- dirtyings
Synonyms for dirtying
Depending on context, synonyms include soilure, soiling.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include soiling, soilure, befoulment, sullying, besmirchment, blackening.
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