grime

Word family

grime /ɡraɪm/ noun [uncountableU]

1 DIRTYa lot of dirt 尘垢，污垢 SYN filth

The walls were black with grime.

墙上黑黑的，积满了灰尘。

n2. (also grime music) a type of British popular music with a fast beat. It is related to several other types of music such as garage and hip hop.

Examples from the Corpus

grime• It is subject to grease and grime from the hands, occasional coffee spills, cigarette ash, dead flies and sandwich crumbs.• The lichen-crusted walls bedecked with city grime capture my attention time and time again.• Cold Cream Cleanser dissolves grime and waterproof make-up.• Just bloody London with its grime and filthy streets and the booze.• Sonny scraped his fingernail along the soft grime on the lip of the oak table.• Greedily she swallowed her saliva mixed with his salty, sweaty grime.• Then the task of cleaning up the grime, and oil, and soot begins.• His hand were black with grime from working on the car.• On one wall of the entryway hangs a large oil painting, covered with grime.• The burgundy skirt was smeared with grime and buttons were missing from her gaping blouse.

Origin grime

(1200-1300) Flemish grijm, from Middle Dutch grime “soot, mask”

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Corpus

BNC: 19712 COCA: 17814

grime

noun

VERB + GRIME | PHRASES

VERB + GRIME

➤be covered in, be covered with佈滿污垢

➤wash away, wash off, wipe away, wipe off洗去／洗掉／擦去／擦掉污垢

PHRASES

➤a layer of grime一層污垢

◇Over the years, the painting has become covered in a thick layer of grime.過了這麼多年，畫上覆有一層厚厚的灰塵。

➤dirt and grime灰塵與污垢

◇Dirt and grime hung to their clothes.灰塵和污垢粘在他們的衣服上。

BNC: 19712 COCA: 17814

grime noun
⇨ dirt

BNC: 19712 COCA: 17814

grime

Dirt: dirt, dust, grime...