Grime

/ɡɹaɪm/ · noun

Meaning

Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove..

Definitions by Sense

1. Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
2. (music) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.
3. (transitive) To begrime; to cake with dirt.

Example Sentences

Underneath all that soot, dirt and grime is the true beauty of the church in soft shades of sandstone.

[…] ſhe ſweats a man may go ouer ſhoes in the grime of it.

Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.

All grimed with coaldust, they swing along the street with their dinner baskets and cans in their hands, chattering merrily.

Fog from the river rolled up the street and the windows were grimed by soot, but Cartwright had not turned on the electric light.

His skin was grimed with dust, for he had ridden hard in scorching heat, and was anxious and impatient to get on.

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Word Forms

• grimes
• griming
• grimed

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