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dirty
Overview of verb dirty
The verb dirty has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire -- (make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!")
Overview of adj dirty
The adj dirty has 12 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (12) dirty, soiled, unclean -- (soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves")
2. (2) dirty -- ((of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth")
3. (1) dirty, filthy, lousy -- (vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor")
4. dirty, contaminating -- (spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout")
5. contaminated, dirty, pestiferous -- (contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen)
6. dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy -- ((of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair")
7. dirty, foul, marked-up -- ((of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy")
8. dirty, ill-gotten -- (obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains")
9. dirty -- (expressing or revealing hostility or dislike; "dirty looks")
10. cheating, dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike -- (violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior")
11. dirty, sordid -- (unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign")
12. dirty -- (unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing")
Grep of noun dirty
dirty bomb
dirty dog
dirty joke
dirty laundry
dirty linen
dirty money
dirty old man
dirty pool
dirty story
dirty trick
dirty tricks
dirty war
dirty word
dirtying
Antonyms of verb dirty
1 sense of dirty
Sense 1
dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
Antonym of clean (Sense 1)
=>clean, make clean
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb dirty
1 sense of dirty
Sense 1
dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb dirty
1 sense of dirty
Sense 1
dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> foul
=> pollute, foul, contaminate
=> smear
=> slime
=> muddy, muddy up
=> splash
=> mire, muck, mud, muck up
=> crock
=> blemish, spot
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb dirty
1 sense of dirty
Sense 1
dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> change, alter, modify
'Cause To' of verb dirty
Derived Forms of verb dirty
1 sense of dirty
Sense 1
dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
RELATED TO>(noun) dirtying#1
=> soiling, soilure, dirtying
Domain of verb dirty
Domain Terms of verb dirty
Familiarity of verb dirty
dirty used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb dirty
1 sense of dirty
Sense 1
dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb dirty
1 sense of dirty
Sense 1
dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
> change, alter, modify
=> awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
=> cause to sleep
=> affect
=> refresh, freshen, refreshen
=> inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise
=> indispose
=> cry
=> etiolate
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> opalize, opalise
=> arterialize, arterialise
=> make, get
=> counterchange, transpose, interchange
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn
=> etiolate
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise
=> allegorize, allegorise
=> demythologize, demythologise
=> bring, land
=> coarsen
=> affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
=> alchemize, alchemise
=> alcoholize, alcoholise
=> shape, form
=> round off, round down, round out, round
=> suspend
=> sober
=> reconstruct
=> increase
=> ease up, ease off, let up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> commute, convert, exchange
=> vitalize, vitalise
=> unclutter, clear
=> activate
=> activate
=> activate, aerate
=> activate
=> inactivate, deactivate
=> deaden, blunt
=> remodel, reconstruct, redo
=> edit, redact
=> edit, cut, edit out
=> tame, chasten, subdue
=> chasten, moderate, temper
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
=> wet
=> dry, dry out
=> lubricate
=> strengthen, beef up, fortify
=> spike, lace, fortify
=> weaken
=> blunt
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> unite, unify, merge
=> age
=> ripen, mature
=> antique, antiquate
=> antiquate
=> develop, make grow
=> soften
=> damage
=> ossify
=> acerbate
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> habituate, accustom
=> disorder, disarray
=> discolor
=> color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
=> stain
=> hue
=> uglify
=> untune
=> adjust, set, correct
=> set
=> disqualify, unfit, indispose
=> domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame
=> widen
=> dehydrogenate
=> hydrogenate
=> oxygenize, oxygenise
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten up, lighten
=> blur, blear
=> obscure, bedim, overcloud
=> obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
=> cook
=> slenderize, slenderise
=> crack
=> dissolve, dismiss
=> end, terminate
=> demist, defog
=> condense, concentrate, contract
=> cool, chill, cool down
=> heat, heat up
=> warm
=> boil
=> freeze
=> blister
=> switch, change over, shift
=> transpose
=> convert, change over
=> transform
=> transform
=> transform
=> transmute
=> transform, transmute, transubstantiate
=> ash
=> translate, transform
=> reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify
=> convert
=> Islamize, Islamise
=> turn back, invert, reverse
=> invert
=> customize, customise
=> personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise
=> depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify
=> sharpen
=> flatten, drop
=> disintegrate
=> magnetize, magnetise
=> demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss
=> simplify
=> complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
=> refine
=> complicate, perplex
=> supercharge, pressurize, pressurise
=> centralize, centralise, concentrate
=> decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise
=> socialize, socialise
=> fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set
=> internationalize, internationalise
=> communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> bestialize, bestialise
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> Frenchify
=> civilize, civilise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> denationalize, denationalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> even, even out
=> equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate
=> stiffen
=> loosen, loose
=> tighten, fasten
=> transitivize, transitivise
=> detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise
=> thicken, inspissate
=> full
=> diversify
=> deaden
=> check, retard, delay
=> decrease, lessen, minify
=> liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise
=> solvate
=> dissolve
=> validate
=> invalidate, void, vitiate
=> empty
=> fill, fill up, make full
=> saturate
=> clot, coagulate
=> louden
=> normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise
=> morph
=> neutralize, neutralise
=> commercialize, commercialise, market
=> purify, purge, sanctify
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> automatize, automatise, automate
=> automatize, automatise
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> harmonize, harmonise, chord
=> polarize, polarise
=> glorify
=> contaminate
=> devalue
=> insulate
=> calcify
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> emulsify
=> demulsify
=> decarboxylate
=> nazify
=> fertilize, fecundate, fertilise
=> clarify
=> embrittle
=> mark
=> barb
=> nick
=> disable, disenable, incapacitate
=> enable
=> de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress
=> tender, tenderize, tenderise
=> charge
=> sweeten
=> iodinate
=> ionate
=> archaize, archaise
=> inform
=> officialize, officialise
=> occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise
=> orientalize, orientalise
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> achromatize, achromatise
=> parallel, collimate
=> camp
=> classicize, classicise
=> conventionalize, conventionalise
=> decimalize, decimalise
=> dizzy
=> poison, envenom
=> exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify
=> glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise
=> introvert
=> laicize, laicise
=> politicize, politicise
=> radicalize
=> proof
=> romanticize, romanticise
=> rusticate
=> sauce
=> shallow, shoal
=> tense
=> steepen
=> scramble
=> unscramble
=> unsex
=> vitrify
=> pall
=> saponify
=> extend, expand
=> suspend, set aside
=> muddy
=> transform
=> lift, raise, elevate
=> harshen
=> dinge
=> demonize, demonise
=> devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise
=> etherealize, etherialise
=> immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise
=> animize, animise, animate
=> clear
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> rarefy, sublimate, subtilize
=> volatilize, volatilise
=> uniformize, uniformise
=> symmetrize, symmetrise
=> immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise
=> denature
=> denature
=> denature
=> sanitize, sanitise
=> verbify
=> shift
=> sputter
=> draw
=> make
=> dope
=> prostrate
=> excite
=> excite, energize, energise
=> shake
=> outmode
=> spice, spice up
=> shorten
=> think
=> make
=> deflate
=> inflate
=> reflate
=> digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise, effeminize, erreminise, womanize
=> masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise
=> masculinize
=> disharmonize, dissonate
=> sexualize, sexualise
=> schematize, schematise
=> patent
=> constitutionalize, constitutionalise
=> rationalize, rationalise
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> rarefy
=> paganize, paganise
=> incandesce
=> deaminate, deaminize
=> angulate
=> circularize
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> depolarize, depolarise
=> intensify
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> legitimate
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> opacify
=> opsonize
=> militarize, militarise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> recommend
=> sentimentalize, sentimentalise
=> solemnize, solemnise
=> territorialize, territorialise
=> transaminate
=> transfigure, glorify, spiritualize
=> unsanctify
=> vesiculate
=> visualize, visualise
=> variegate
=> ventilate
=> vivify
=> vulgarise, vulgarize
=> supple
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> smut
=> still
=> weaponize
=> eroticize, sex up
=> piggyback
=> confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate
=> confuse
=> tone down, moderate, tame
=> obfuscate
=> synchronize, synchronise
=> mince, soften, moderate
=> militarize, militarise
=> break down, crush
=> fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
=> touch, disturb
=> dull
=> dull, blunt
=> sharpen
=> coarsen
=> loosen
=> untie, undo, loosen
=> barb
=> string
=> straighten, straighten out
=> bring
=> mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate
=> charge
=> put
=> clean, make clean
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> lower, depress
=> deform
=> break, break up
=> alter
=> decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
=> humanize, humanise
=> humble
=> estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect
=> right
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> deodorize, deodorise, deodourise
=> develop
=> blur
=> blind
=> change intensity
=> change taste
=> capture
=> lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring
=> restore, reinstate, reestablish
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> right, compensate, redress, correct
=> democratize, democratise
=> neutralize
=> corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
=> relax, loosen
=> unite, unify
=> flocculate
=> turn
=> make possible
=> cohere
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb dirty
Sense 1
dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> change, alter, modify
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Grep of verb dirty
dirty
Antonyms of adj dirty
12 senses of dirty
Sense 1
dirty (vs. clean), soiled, unclean
clean (vs. dirty)
=> cleanable
=> cleaned, cleansed
=> cleanly
=> dry-cleaned
=> fresh, unused
=> immaculate, speckless, spick-and-span, spic-and-span, spic, spick, spotless
=> pristine
=> scrubbed
=> unsoiled, unspotted, unstained
=> unsullied
=> washed, water-washed
Sense 2
dirty (vs. clean)
clean (vs. dirty), unobjectionable
=> antiseptic
Sense 3
dirty, filthy, lousy
INDIRECT (VIA nasty) -> nice
Sense 4
dirty (vs. clean), contaminating
clean (vs. dirty), uncontaminating
Sense 5
contaminated, dirty, pestiferous
INDIRECT (VIA septic) -> antiseptic
Sense 6
dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy
INDIRECT (VIA impure) -> pure
Sense 7
dirty, foul, marked-up
INDIRECT (VIA illegible) -> legible
Sense 8
dirty, ill-gotten
INDIRECT (VIA illegal) -> legal
Sense 9
dirty
INDIRECT (VIA hostile) -> amicable
Sense 10
cheating(prenominal), dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike
INDIRECT (VIA unfair) -> fair, just
Sense 11
dirty, sordid
INDIRECT (VIA corrupt) -> incorrupt
Sense 12
dirty
INDIRECT (VIA stormy) -> calm
Similarity of adj dirty
12 senses of dirty
Sense 1
dirty (vs. clean), soiled, unclean
=> Augean
=> bedraggled, draggled
=> befouled, fouled
=> begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy
=> bespattered, spattered, besplashed, splashed
=> black, smutty
=> buggy
=> cobwebby
=> dirty-faced
=> dusty, dust-covered
=> fecal, faecal, feculent
=> filthy, foul, nasty
=> flyblown, squalid, sordid
=> greasy, oily
=> lousy
=> maculate
=> mucky, muddy
=> ratty
=> scummy
=> smudgy
=> snotty, snot-nosed
=> sooty
=> travel-soiled, travel-stained
=> uncleanly
=> unswept
=> unwashed
Also See> unclean#2, impure#3; untidy#1
Sense 2
dirty (vs. clean)
=> bawdy, off-color, ribald
=> blasphemous, blue, profane
=> dirty-minded
=> filthy, foul, nasty, smutty
=> foul-mouthed, foul-spoken
=> lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious
=> scabrous
=> scatological
Also See> indecent#2
Sense 3
dirty, filthy, lousy
=> nasty (vs. nice), awful
Sense 4
dirty (vs. clean), contaminating
Sense 5
contaminated, dirty, pestiferous
=> septic (vs. antiseptic), infected
Sense 6
dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy
=> impure (vs. pure)
Sense 7
dirty, foul, marked-up
=> illegible (vs. legible)
Sense 8
dirty, ill-gotten
=> illegal (vs. legal)
Sense 9
dirty
=> hostile (vs. amicable)
Sense 10
cheating(prenominal), dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike
=> unfair (vs. fair), unjust
Sense 11
dirty, sordid
=> corrupt (vs. incorrupt)
Sense 12
dirty
=> stormy (vs. calm)
Pertainyms of adj dirty
Attributes of adj dirty
1 of 12 senses of dirty
Sense 1
dirty (vs. clean), soiled, unclean
=> cleanness
Domain of adj dirty
Domain Terms of adj dirty
Familiarity of adj dirty
dirty used as an adjective is familiar (polysemy count =12)
Grep of adj dirty
dirty
dirty-faced
dirty-minded
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