Thesaurus:dirty
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]Sense: to make physically dirty
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- assoil (obsolete)
- beclart (UK dialect)
- bedaub (obsolete)
- bedirty
- bedizen (UK dialect)
- befile (obsolete)
- befilth (rare)
- befoul
- begrime
- beray (archaic or obsolete)
- besmear
- besmirch
- besully
- bewray (archaic or obsolete)
- blacken
- blot
- blur (obsolete)
- clat
- contaminate
- darken
- defile
- denigrate (rare)
- dirty
- drag through the mud
- dull
- elt (Northern England, Scotland)
- foil (obsolete)
- foul
- gunk
- gunk up
- inquinate
- pollute
- scunge
- sling mud
- slotter
- slur
- smirch
- smudge
- smutch
- soil
- soss (UK dialect)
- sowl
- spoil [⇒ thesaurus]
- spot [⇒ thesaurus]
- stain
- sullow
- sully
- taint
- tarnish
- uggle (UK dialect, obsolete)
Antonyms
[edit]- clean [⇒ thesaurus]
- make clean [⇒ thesaurus]
Hyponyms
[edit]Various
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “653. uncleanness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “dirty” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.