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• v  make soiled, filthy, or dirty
• s  thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
  a miner's begrimed face

• To celebrate the 135th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, East Germany's Red rulers bestowed a dubious blessing on the smoke-begrimed industrial city of Chemnitz (pop.
• Whether they belong to begrimed children in Pennsylvania coal mines, languid prostitutes in the New Orleans redlight district, or impassive Navajos on horseback in the Southwest .
• But now the air-raid sirens were silent, and the new factories, not yet built in 1941, were begrimed.

• dirty
• soil
• begrime
• grime
• colly
• bemire
• dingy
• grimy
• grubby
• grungy
• raunchy

• clean