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.

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