dirty
/ˈdɝti/ verb C2- To make (something) dirty.
- To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
- To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
- To become soiled; to soil or defecate on.
He/she/it dirties · Past dirtied · Past participle dirtied · -ing form dirtying
Verb forms
- Base form
- dirty
- He/she/it
- dirties
- Past
- dirtied
- Past participle
- dirtied
- -ing form
- dirtying
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He had borne with the public prison, and with privations of all sorts; still, by degrees nature, or rather custom, had prevailed, and he suffered from being naked, dirty, and hungry.
Her dirty petticoat quite escaped my notice.”
With no greater events than these in the Longbourn family, and otherwise diversified by little beyond the walks to Meryton, sometimes dirty and sometimes cold, did January and February pass away.
No one could guess what the dirty rag could be; I alone suspected that it was the waistcoat of the murdered man.
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