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v. - Make soiled, filthy, or dirty.

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Usage examples (5)
  • The lorde one day all to begrime you with worshyp,
  • These cottons begrime their wearers sadly, the colour is not fast, the indigo being ill prepared.
  • 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.
  • "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.
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