What's the difference between begrime and begrimed?
Begrime
Definition:
(v. t.) To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.
Example Sentences:
(1) Often only one – and sometimes no – carriage door would open when they pulled into a station, and in summer they were “cooled” only by the methodical sweep of a begrimed metal fan that just pushed the sordid air about.
(2) A Wall Street Journal editorialist fumed the program was “death by bicycle” and that the rows of Citi Bike racks “begrimed” the city.
Begrimed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Begrime
Example Sentences:
(1) Often only one – and sometimes no – carriage door would open when they pulled into a station, and in summer they were “cooled” only by the methodical sweep of a begrimed metal fan that just pushed the sordid air about.
(2) A Wall Street Journal editorialist fumed the program was “death by bicycle” and that the rows of Citi Bike racks “begrimed” the city.