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dirtens

dirtens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dirten.

Meaning of dirten

Verb

dirten (third-person singular simple present dirtens, present participle dirtening, simple past and past participle dirtened)

  1. (Uganda, ambitransitive) To make or become dirty or soiled.
    • "May I wash her and change her dress before you take her? She always hated being dirty," I said remembering how Pauline used to cry if she fell down and dirtened her dress or socks.1999, Jane Alison Kaberuka, Silent Patience, page 44
    Synonyms:
    bedirty, gunk, stain, assoil, beclart, bedaub, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth

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Questions about dirtens

What is dirtens the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dirtens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dirten.

Words near dirtens in the dictionary

  1. dirtbrains
  2. dirted
  3. dirten
  4. dirtened
  5. dirtening
  6. dirtens
  7. dirtfall
  8. dirtfalls
  9. dirtfarmer
  10. dirtfarmers
  11. dirtful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dirtens (page history and authors); dirten (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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