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griming

/ˈɡɹaɪmɪŋ/

griming is the present participle and gerund of grime.

Meaning of grime

Verb

grime (third-person singular simple present grimes, present participle griming, simple past and past participle grimed)

  1. (transitive) To begrime; to cake with dirt.
    • 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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Words that rhyme with griming

Questions about griming

What is griming the present participle and gerund of?
Griming is the present participle and gerund of grime.
How do you pronounce griming?
Griming is pronounced /ˈɡɹaɪmɪŋ/.

Words near griming in the dictionary

  1. grimicidin
  2. grimier
  3. grimiest
  4. grimily
  5. griminess
  6. griming
  7. grimless
  8. Grimley
  9. Grimleys
  10. grimlier
  11. grimliest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: griming (page history and authors); grime (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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