begrime
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- Rhymes: -aɪm
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begrime (third-person singular simple present begrimes, present participle begriming, simple past and past participle begrimed)
- (transitive) To make something dirty; to soil
- 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter VII, page 78:
- The smoke of the pine-wood fires […] had most effectually begrimed their features, and their dresses had not scrupled to partake of the same colouring.
- 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter VII, page 78:
