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单词 begrimed
释义

begrimed

adjective

be·​grimed bi-ˈgrīmd How to pronounce begrimed (audio)
bē-
: made dirty or grimy : covered with grime
The images in the newspaper and magazine photographs and on the television evening news programs were the begrimed and haggard faces of Marines in peril. Neil Sheehan
… a dismal collection of black, begrimed old pictures, rotting from their frames … Wilkie Collins

Synonyms

  • bedraggled
  • befouled
  • bemired
  • besmirched
  • black
  • blackened
  • cruddy
  • dingy
  • dirty
  • draggled
  • dusty
  • filthy
  • foul
  • grimy
  • grotty [chiefly British]
  • grubby
  • grungy
  • mucky
  • muddy
  • nasty
  • smudged
  • smutty
  • soiled
  • sordid
  • stained
  • sullied
  • unclean
  • uncleanly
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web In a theatre that admits no light or sound from the outside world, the audience watches as poor, begrimed laborers and criminals are pushed onstage to shoot their kids and stab their teachers. Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1865, in the meaning defined above

begrimed 1 of 2

adjective

as in filthy
not clean begrimed miners emerging from the coal mines

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • filthy
  • blackened
  • stained
  • dusty
  • dirty
  • muddy
  • smudged
  • black
  • draggled
  • grimy
  • greasy
  • nasty
  • soiled
  • besmirched
  • befouled
  • dingy
  • sullied
  • bedraggled
  • grubby
  • mucky
  • unclean
  • uncleanly
  • messy
  • polluted
  • sordid
  • grungy
  • grotty
  • bemired
  • smutty
  • messed
  • confused
  • cruddy
  • sloppy
  • littered
  • unwashed
  • foul
  • contaminated
  • defiled
  • chaotic
  • disarranged
  • uncleaned
  • tainted
  • insanitary
  • rumpled
  • impure
  • disheveled
  • unkempt
  • scruffy
  • disarrayed
  • slovenly
  • sooty
  • mussed
  • untidy
  • unsanitary
  • cluttered
  • squalid
  • shabby
  • gunky
  • jumbled
  • muddled
  • germy
  • disordered
  • dishevelled
  • scuzzy
  • mussy
  • unsterilized
  • unsterile
  • fuliginous
  • skanky
  • crocked
  • raunchy
  • sleazy
  • collied

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • unsullied
  • clean
  • spotless
  • unstained
  • unsoiled
  • immaculate
  • cleaned
  • stainless
  • limpid
  • ultraclean
  • cleansed
  • pure
  • cleanly
  • clear
  • bleached
  • whitened
  • tidy
  • neat
  • spic-and-span
  • spick-and-span
  • orderly
  • combed
  • purified
  • shiny
  • groomed
  • ordered
  • bright
  • untouched
  • unspotted
  • sparkling
  • perfect
  • unpolluted
  • flawless
  • untainted
  • wholesome
  • unblemished
  • undefiled
  • virgin
  • taintless
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begrimed

2 of 2

verb

past tense of begrime
as in stained
to make dirty years of spattered mud had thoroughly begrimed the mailbox by the side of the road

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • stained
  • blackened
  • grimed
  • dirtied
  • soiled
  • smudged
  • besmirched
  • smirched
  • sullied
  • befouled
  • muddied
  • mucked
  • messed
  • daubed
  • mired
  • bemired
  • polluted
  • distained
  • contaminated
  • gaumed
  • fouled
  • discolored
  • tainted
  • draggled
  • disarranged
  • defiled
  • disheveled
  • disarrayed
  • disordered
  • jumbled
  • confused
  • dishevelled
  • muddled
  • crocked
  • collied

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • cleaned
  • cleansed
  • purified
  • purged
  • wiped
  • washed
  • decontaminated
  • swept
  • scrubbed
  • disinfected
  • brushed
  • dusted
  • mopped
  • rinsed
  • sanitized
  • brightened
  • laundered
  • renewed
  • scoured
  • freshened
  • deodorized
  • dry-cleaned
  • straightened (up)
  • spruced (up)
  • tidied (up)
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