to dirty
14
1.0
- verb
- /ˈdɜrti/
:
ensuciar
- He accidentally dirty his shirt while painting the fence.
- dirty your hands
Examples
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Why did you dirty the suits?
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And go get your hands dirty and have fun.
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In fact, they even got their own hands dirty in these matters.
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How about you tell me what made you dirty your hands in the first place?
Blog text (8) -
If he can drive the motors, he should be prepared to dirty up his clothes too.
Fiction book (1991) -
So we can dirty up the kitchen, then pretend that we cooked all night.
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I rinse, hands cleaned, and hope I will not have to dirty them again today.
Fiction book (1991) -
Oliver promptly pounced on Tom Cat, dirtying his fine black fur in the dust.
Fiction book (1998) -
So I'm using some basic painters tape to mask off the painting so that when I do the cleaning, I don't dirty up that canvas.
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The kids dirty their shoes playing in the mud at the park.
Synonyms
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1.0
To make something untidy or dirty
59
4.5
To make something dirty with mud or dirt
18
4.5
To make something dirty or blocked so it does not work properly
5
1.9
Make something dirty with mud or sediment
3
9.4
Make something dirty or spoiled by adding harmful things
3
3.5
To make something dirty with mud
1
9.9
To put a dirty mark on something like a dress or carpet
1
6.6
To make something dirty by covering it with dirt or soot
1
9.4
To cover something with dark dirt so it becomes dirty
1
3.5
To make something dirty with wet dirt, for example shoes or floors
To stain something with black dirt or soot
To make something dirty or stained
To cover someone or something with mud
To make something dirty with mud or dirt
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To talk about private, embarrassing things in front of other people
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
12
6.0
Secret dishonest actions that harm or make someone look bad, often in politics and business
- NSFW
10
7.7
A weapon that explodes and spreads radioactive material to contaminate an area, not a nuclear bomb
- Offensive
8
8.4
An older man who makes sexual comments or touches younger people when they do not want him to
- Offensive
2
9.2
A secret campaign by a government against suspected opponents using kidnapping, torture, and murder
- Informal
1
7.9
Private family or personal matters that embarrass people if the public finds out
- Offensive
A short secret trip for a romantic or sexual meeting, often an affair
How Dirty
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3.4
248
4.9
14
1.0
113
3.2
59
4.5
30
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
To dirty something is to make it covered with dirt; the verb comes directly from the noun dirt, so to dirty is simply to make not clean.