as in dirt
foul matter that mars the purity or cleanliness of something
this new product really cuts through grime
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as in to stain
to make dirty
countless hours of work were needed to clean the floors of the old warehouse that had been grimed from a century of use
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Recent Examples of grime
Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
The city needs to do a more thorough power wash, powerful enough to remove grime, and then sanitize.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025
Natural Cleaning Scrub If your pots and pans are coated with grime or have stubborn stains, try sprinkling spent coffee grounds over the spot and scrubbing the area with a sponge or scouring pad.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Mar. 2025
Watch out for slippery roads: The first half-hour of rain is when roads are slickest due to a mix of rain, grime, and oil.
—Bay Area Weather Report, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The music is British hip-hop—jungle, grime, sometimes short on funky groove.
—Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
The city needs to do a more thorough power wash, powerful enough to remove grime, and then sanitize.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025
Natural Cleaning Scrub If your pots and pans are coated with grime or have stubborn stains, try sprinkling spent coffee grounds over the spot and scrubbing the area with a sponge or scouring pad.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Mar. 2025
Watch out for slippery roads: The first half-hour of rain is when roads are slickest due to a mix of rain, grime, and oil.
—Bay Area Weather Report, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grime
Noun
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Take care not to agitate the water, so that all the dirt and grit stays at the bottom of the bowl.—
Vicky Hallett,
NPR,
10 Apr. 2025
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Start by clearing the garage floor and using a broom to get rid of solid dirt and road salt.—
Maria Sabella,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Its players are turncoats whose legacies are forever stained.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
6 Apr. 2025
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Be careful and don’t use it every wash because these products can stain your hair with a pink or lavender tint.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The war settled into a brutal battle of attrition with limited movement along a frontline stretching for 600 miles through muck of eastern Ukraine.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
11 Mar. 2025
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The Clippers’ success lately isn’t just stemming from them making games ugly with their defense and slogging through the muck.—
Zach Harper,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
Verb
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For example, a small non-shedding dog that rarely goes outside won't dirty a bed nearly as fast as a large labarador that plays outside daily.—
Halee Miller Van Ryswyk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Apr. 2025
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Grease dirtied the handles of the ovens, the microwave ovens and the coolers.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The Basketball Africa League (BAL) is set to kick off its fifth season today, in Rabat, Morocco—a historic moment as the league plays its inaugural games on Moroccan soil.—
Sindiswa Mabunda,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Weed treatment can leave behind bare patches of soil.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
5 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Unlike a total solar eclipse, when the disk of the sun is completely blackened, an eclipsed moon does not vanish completely from the sky.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
11 Mar. 2025
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But the negro resents and utterly repudiates the effort to blacken his good name by asserting that assaults upon women are peculiar to his race.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This insider will not only remain a secret to the staff, but will also help Ramsay infiltrate the restaurant after-hours for a dramatic nighttime black light kitchen investigation that reveals more filth and grossness than ever before.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Ultimately, what all of this research reveals is that the planet is dirty, even if the filth can be hard to see.—
Benji Jones,
Vox,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Grime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grime. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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