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begriming

verb , present participle of begrime

Synonyms and Antonyms of begriming

to make dirty

years of spattered mud had thoroughly begrimed the mailbox by the side of the road

Synonyms of begriming

befouling, bemiring, besmirching, blackening, daubing, dirtying, distaining [archaic], fouling, gauming [dialect], griming, miring, mucking, muddying, smirching, smudging, soiling, staining, sullying

Words Related to begriming

contaminating, defiling, polluting, tainting

confusing, disarranging, disarraying, disheveling (or dishevelling), disordering, draggling, jumbling, messing, muddling

collying [chiefly British dialect], crocking [dialect]

Near Antonyms of begriming

decontaminating, purging, purifying

disinfecting, sanitizing

brushing, dry-cleaning, dusting, laundering, mopping, rinsing, scouring, scrubbing, sweeping, washing, wiping

brightening, deodorizing, freshening, renewing, sprucing (up)

straightening (up), tidying (up)

Antonyms of begriming

cleaning, cleansing

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