Noun: grime grIm
- Anything regarded as making something unclean
"He scrubbed the grime off his hands after working on the car";
- dirt, filth, soil, stain, grease, grunge
- Make soiled, filthy, or dirty
"Years of neglect had grimed the old factory windows";
- dirty, soil, begrime, colly [archaic], bemire [archaic]
Derived forms: grimed, grimes, griming
Type of: alter, change, dirtiness, modify, uncleanness
Antonym: clean
Encyclopedia: Grime, Silk, & Thunder