Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To smear or soil with or as if with dirt.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make grimy; cover or impress as with dirt or grime.
- Synonyms Tarnish, etc. See soil.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make soiled, filthy, or dirty
Examples
“Emir, who abandoned himself to grief and despair, and began, as did all his old grey-beards, to begrime his visage with ashes.”
“After the consent of the girl and her parents has been obtained, one more ordeal remains; the bridal couple have to run the gauntlet of the mischievous village boys, who stand ready with sooted hands to begrime their faces and bodies; and generally they succeed so well that bride and groom present the appearance of negroes.”
“From _xoyaui_, to begrime, to spoil; _xoyauian_, the place of blackness, or of decay.”
Rig Veda Americanus Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl
“He saw a face which even the dust of the streets could not so begrime as to hide its sweetness or its tenderness, as, with deep solicitude, she bent over her cousin.”
“These cottons begrime their wearers sadly, the colour is not fast, the indigo being ill prepared.”
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
“The news of so unlucky an event soon reached the ears of the Emir, who abandoned himself to grief and despair, and began, as did all his old grey-beards, to begrime his visage with ashes.”
“The lorde one day all to begrime you with worshyp,”
“Of routine, it helps that you apprehend me pathetic my boobs and fingering my pussy while we switch begrime words, but you take in the idea.”
““In our polished days, and according to the rules of art, ’tis impossible that the Muse should depict tortures or begrime her hands with the horrors of war.”
“In our polished days, and according to the rules of art, 'tis impossible that the Muse should depict tortures or begrime her hands with the horrors of war.”
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Used
halcyon, ineluctable, inspissated, incarnadine, askance, demur, saltation, requisite, effusive, specious, liminality, indomitable and 114 more...
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Belistful
Tubey or not tubey.
belittle, bedazzle, besiege, besmirch, bespeckle, beget, bemoan, befuddle, befriend, become, besot, becloud and 596 more...
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Good Words
fenestering, cetic, immanent, quickening, archetypal, shibboleth, soma, wetware, heritable, Apotheosis, halcyon, cellar door and 482 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Words I will probably never use
décolleté, pendragon, amerce, viviparous, dragoon, brigand, outlaw, outlawry, lugubrious, boor, contretemps, decrepit and 151 more...
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Belist
Be- verbs (or verbals).
Words bewet through becalm were gratefully cribbed from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be-bewitch, bedeck, bedaub, become, bewilder, beknight, bereave, believe, behead, besiege, bespeak, befriend and 53 more...
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Stuff
bedraggled, begrime, bismotered, cesspoolful, decrepit, dross, eldritch, froth, sordid, strangerhood, subterraneous, nether and 6 more...
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