dirtying

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noun

A soiling or making dirty.

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soiluresoiling
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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of dirty
noundirtying (plural dirtyings)

plural dirtyings

  1. A soiling or making dirty.

    Once understood, not as the venereal-disease jokes they pretend to be, but as food-dirtyings and fecal dirtyings in the attempt to defile the image of the hidden mother, these jokes do not really seem very frightening, or even disgusting, […]

    1982, Gershon Legman, No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor

    Synonyms: soilure

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA soiling or making dirty.

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soilure

More synonyms by meaning

nounthe act of soiling something

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soilingsoilure
Broader
change of state
Also see
corruptionsoilingsoilure

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Cite this entry
APA

dirtying. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirtying

MLA

“dirtying.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirtying. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dirtying,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirtying.

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