: soot, smut, or dirt adhering to or embedded in a surface
broadly
: accumulated dirtiness and disorder
grime
transitive verb
Examples of grime in a Sentence
The windows were coated with grime.
this new product really cuts through grime
Recent Examples on the Web
The injured were wandering around in their socks on tiles streaked with blood and grime.
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Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
Physical exfoliants include facial scrubs, which use granules to literally scrub dead skin cells, oil, dirt and grime from your skin.
—Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024
There is a little something called gravity that tends to make all that dust, dirt, and grime all pile up at the end.
—Mary Alice Russell, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2024
Drake, on the other hand, is an unflagging hitmaker with as many No. 1 singles as Michael Jackson, a genre-fluid Lothario whose forays into nineties R. & B., Caribbean dancehall, and U.K. grime have come to define the contemporary pop-music canon.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2024
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Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
Physical exfoliants include facial scrubs, which use granules to literally scrub dead skin cells, oil, dirt and grime from your skin.
—Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024
There is a little something called gravity that tends to make all that dust, dirt, and grime all pile up at the end.
—Mary Alice Russell, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2024
Drake, on the other hand, is an unflagging hitmaker with as many No. 1 singles as Michael Jackson, a genre-fluid Lothario whose forays into nineties R. & B., Caribbean dancehall, and U.K. grime have come to define the contemporary pop-music canon.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2024
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“Grime.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grime. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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grime
noun
: dirt rubbed into or covering a surface
also
: accumulated dirtiness and disorder
grime
verb
griminess
noun
ˈgrī-mē-nəs
grimy
adjective
ˈgrī-mē
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