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Adjective: begrimed  bi'grImd
  1. Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
    "a miner's begrimed face";
    - dingy, grimy, grubby [informal], grungy, raunchy [US, informal], manky [Brit, informal], scungy [Austral, NZ, informal]
Verb: begrime  bi'grIm
  1. Make soiled, filthy, or dirty
    "don't begrime your clothes when you play outside!";
    - dirty, soil, grime, colly [archaic], bemire [archaic]

See also: dirty, soiled, unclean

Type of: alter, change, modify