grime

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 

View all »
Definitions (8)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. noun Black dirt or soot, especially such dirt clinging to or ingrained in a surface.
  2. transitive verb To cover with black dirt or soot; begrime.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples

  • Curtains hung stiff with grime, the rug gave off little puffs of dust at each footstep, and the furniture stood about in no particular order, appearing to have been shoved here and there for a passing purpose and never replaced. —  Working Murder
  • His face was thick with grime, as if he had done some serious forehead-first pushing along the floor. —  Into the Thinking Kingdoms
  • Then the image focuses on those hands and what I take for grime is actually blood. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  • Reaching up to wipe away sweat and grime, the guard blinked uncertainly. —  Drowning World
  • This grime was the grime of a sea-coal ship! —  The Fifth Queen Crowned
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

Grime has been looked up 280 times, favorited 0 times, listed 8 times, and commented on 0 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

soot ·  italo ·  filth ·  grease ·  slime ·  perspiration ·  dirt ·  mildew ·  droppings ·  dung ·  dampness ·  sawdust
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English grim; akin to Middle Dutch grīme; see ghrēi- in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. from Middle English grim, prob. of Scandinavian origin, from Danish grime, a streak, a stripe (later grimet, streaked, striped), = Swedish dial. grima, a spot or smut on the face (cf. Middle Dutch grimsel, grijmsel, soot, smut (Kilian), grimmelen, soil, begrime; Low German grimmelig, ingrimmelig, soiled, dirty), = Friesic grime, a dark mark on the face, also a mask, = Anglo-Saxon grīma, a mask, vizor, = Icelandic grīma, a kind of hood or cowl. It is not certain that all these words belong to one root.
  2. from grime, n.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/graɪm/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a month.

Recent Lookups

street-car · anecdote · beleaguered · knows · fragmentary

Recent Favorites

TelePalmter · Espoo · stick-to-it-iveness · supine · doxastic

Recent Pronunciations

milosrdenstvi · lichen-covered · futon · sagacity · monoragngocious