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Antonyms for dirtying

Grammar : Verb
Spell : dur-tee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɜr ti

Definition of dirtying

Origin :
  • c.1500, from dirt + -y (2). Earlier dritty (late 14c.). Meaning "smutty, morally unclean" is from 1590s. Of colors, from 1690s. Dirty linen "personal or familial secrets" is first recorded 1860s. Dirty work in the figurative sense is from 1764; dirty trick is from 1670s. The dirty look someone gives you is from 1928; dirty old man "superannuated lecher" is from 1932. Related: dirtiness.
  • verb cause to be soiled
Example sentences :
  • They are quite new; but I have been dirtying them, outside, to make them look natural.
  • Extract from : « Held Fast For England » by G. A. Henty
  • Destruction on you, you nasty hag, is it dirtying Mary's Well you are?
  • Extract from : « Legends of Saints & Sinners » by Douglas Hyde
  • Some are vexed for the dirtying of their linen, or some such trifle, for which the least passion is too big an expense.
  • Extract from : « Bunyan Characters - Third Series » by Alexander Whyte
  • It is not worth while dirtying your hands, and perhaps getting an ugly blow, in a scuffle with such a fellow.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. » by Various
  • When I had finished, I thought of dirtying the twine to make the work look old; but I decided to let well alone.
  • Extract from : « Martin Hyde, The Duke's Messenger » by John Masefield
  • An officer ought to be able to show his men how to do everything, and he can never do that if he is afraid of dirtying his hands.
  • Extract from : « A Chapter of Adventures » by G. A. Henty
  • Keep your hands from dirtying the cloth, and dont wipe your nose on it, or dip too deep in your cup.
  • Extract from : « Early English Meals and Manners » by Various
  • If it is heard that, for fear of dirtying his house, a man has made a place expressly, he will be blamed for it.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Old Japan » by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
  • I am going to make Bob Bangs pay for dirtying my boat, and he can pay for the lost berries, too.
  • Extract from : « Randy of the River » by Horatio Alger Jr.
  • Youths have been seized as soldiers for kicking up the dust in front of a sentinel and dirtying his clothes.
  • Extract from : « Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 » by James Richardson

Synonyms for dirtying

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