Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to grime
Participle: grimed
Gerund: griming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | grime |
| you | grime |
| he;she;it | grimes |
| we | grime |
| you | grime |
| they | grime |
Perfect
| I | have grimed |
| you | have grimed |
| he;she;it | has grimed |
| we | have grimed |
| you | have grimed |
| they | have grimed |
Past
| I | grimed |
| you | grimed |
| he;she;it | grimed |
| we | grimed |
| you | grimed |
| they | grimed |
Pluperfect
| I | had grimed |
| you | had grimed |
| he;she;it | had grimed |
| we | had grimed |
| you | had grimed |
| they | had grimed |
Future
| I | will grime |
| you | will grime |
| he;she;it | will grime |
| we | will grime |
| you | will grime |
| they | will grime |
Future Perfect
| I | will have grimed |
| you | will have grimed |
| he;she;it | will have grimed |
| we | will have grimed |
| you | will have grimed |
| they | will have grimed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | grime |
| you | grime |
| he;she;it | grime |
| we | grime |
| you | grime |
| they | grime |
Perfect
| I | have grimed |
| you | have grimed |
| he;she;it | have grimed |
| we | have grimed |
| you | have grimed |
| they | have grimed |
Imperfect
| I | grimed |
| you | grimed |
| he;she;it | grimed |
| we | grimed |
| you | grimed |
| they | grimed |
Pluperfect
| I | had grimed |
| you | had grimed |
| he;she;it | had grimed |
| we | had grimed |
| you | had grimed |
| they | had grimed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would grime |
| you | would grime |
| he;she;it | would grime |
| we | would grime |
| you | would grime |
| they | would grime |
Perfect
| I | would have grimed |
| you | would have grimed |
| he;she;it | would have grimed |
| we | would have grimed |
| you | would have grimed |
| they | would have grimed |
Imperative
| you | grime |
| we | Let's grime |
| you | grime |
Verbs conjugated like 'grime'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'grime'
crime,
grame,
grice,
gride,
grim,
gripe,
prime,
rime,
agrise,
agrize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English grim (“dirt or soot covering the face”), from a specialized use of Old English grīma (“mask”), from Proto-West Germanic *grīmō, from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask”).
2. Likely influenced by dialectal Dutch grijmsel (“grit, grime”), Dutch grijm (“soot, grime”), Middle Dutch gryme (“mask”), Middle Low German greme (“dirt”), compare Danish grime (“a halter”), Danish grimet (“soiled, stripy”), Norwegian Bokmål grimete (“soiled, stripy”), Norwegian Nynorsk grimete (“soiled, stripy”). See: Danish '
grime', Norwegian '
grimete', Norwegian, nynorsk '
grimete'.
Verbs referencing "grime"
Norwegian, nynorsk
grime.
Sample Sentences
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All grimed with coaldust, they swing along the street with their dinner baskets and cans in their hands, chattering merrily. [1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine:]
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Fog from the river rolled up the street and the windows were grimed by soot, but Cartwright had not turned on the electric light. [1920, Harold Bindloss, Lister's Great Adventure:]
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His skin was grimed with dust, for he had ridden hard in scorching heat, and was anxious and impatient to get on. [1918, Harold Bindloss, The Buccaneer Farmer:]