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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The throw from second baseman Nico Hoerner was coming in just above the dirt.—
Sean Hammond,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2025
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Sosa hopped up, dug into the dirt with his left foot and stared at Treinen.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
7 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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Grease dirtied the handles of the ovens, the microwave ovens and the coolers.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
14 Feb. 2025
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Instead of dirtying a larger pot for your supporting dishes, this quaint cooker will come in handy for quick (or slower simmering) concoctions while matching your kitchen atmosphere.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In Soggy Soil Slow-draining soil presents a host of problems for tomato plants.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
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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Rock stars are wealthy, privileged people who live just like other wealthy, privileged people do, in places where the streets are quiet and safe, protected by gates and uniformed security guards from the danger, filth, and darkness of a world where everyone wants to be rich and famous and loved.—
David Samuels,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Before that, That’s A Wrap Sandwich Co. obviously housed too many rodents, roaches or general filth for whoever filed the complaint with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Grime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grime. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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