dirtying

Meaning of dirtying

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. make dirty.
    she didn't like him dirtying her nice clean towels

Information about dirtying

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of dirtying

dirty-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • dirtying is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

dirtying synonyms

Meaning soiling:

soiling, soilure

Meaning the upper layer of earth in which plants grow, a black or dark brown material typically consisting of a mixture of organic remains, clay, and rock particles:

soil

Meaning mark or discolour with something that is not easily removed:

stain

Meaning cover or fill (something) with mud:

muddy

Meaning make or become black or dark, especially as a result of burning, decay, or bruising:

blacken

Meaning diminish or destroy the value or quality of:

spoil

Meaning make or become less valuable or respected:

tarnish

Meaning affect with a bad or undesirable quality:

taint

Meaning make a visible impression or stain on:

mark

Meaning cover with drops or spots of something:

spatter

Meaning splash drops of a liquid substance all over (an object):

bespatter

Meaning cause (something) to become messily smeared by rubbing it:

smudge

Meaning coat or mark (something) messily or carelessly with a greasy or sticky substance:

smear

Meaning carelessly coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance:

daub

Meaning mark or become marked with spots:

spot

Meaning cause (liquid) to strike or fall on something in irregular drops:

splash

Meaning splash with a liquid, typically a thick or viscous one:

splatter

Meaning damage the purity or integrity of:

sully

Meaning contaminate (water, the air, etc.) with harmful or poisonous substances:

pollute

Meaning make foul or dirty; pollute:

foul

Meaning damage the purity or appearance of; mar or spoil:

defile

Meaning make dirty; pollute:

befoul

Meaning damage (someone's reputation):

besmirch

Meaning blacken with ingrained dirt:

begrime

dirtying antonyms

Meaning make clean; remove dirt, marks, or stains from:

clean

Words that rhyme with dirtying

betra'ying, Maying, abraying, affraying, alaying, allaying, apaying, appaying, arraying, assaying, baying, belaying, bendaying, beraying, betraying, bewraying, bioassaying, braying, bricklaying, cardplaying, causewaying, claying, daying, decaying, deejaying, defraying, delaying, denaying, deraying, disarraying, dismaying, displaying, doomsaying, downplaying, draying, effraying, embaying, endplaying, essaying, estraying, faying, flaying, foraying, forelaying, foresaying, forraying, forsaying, fraying, gainsaying, gatewaying

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