begrimed

begrimed

1. simple past tense and past participle of begrime

begrimed (not comparable)

1. Dirty, soiled, grimy.
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 18,

     I knew Mr. Rochester; though the begrimed face, the disordered dress […] , the desperate and scowling countenance, the rough, bristling hair might well have disguised him.

   • 1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in Heart of Darkness:

     Trees, trees, millions of trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at their foot, hugging the bank against the stream, crept the little begrimed steamboat, like a sluggish beetle crawling on the floor of a lofty portico.

   • 1989, Hillel Halkin (translator), Five Seasons by A. B. Yehoshua, Doubleday, Part 4, Chapter 25, p. 277,

     […] he was surprised to find some half-eaten stringbeans and a crushed pack of cigarettes in the garbage pail. Though he was tempted to salvage the half-empty pack, it was already much too begrimed.