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begrime

verb as in bemire

verb as in blacken

verb as in smudge

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He’s spent most of the past couple of days sitting on the begrimed concrete outside a bustling 7-Eleven.

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And in the firerooms, begrimed sailors frantically shoveled coal into the boilers.

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The flag was worn and begrimed with age, and almost a century old.

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As Farrell, Fleming and King worked in the museum’s Batten Conservation Complex, other equally begrimed museum conservators and archaeologists lent a hand.

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He is about to shoot when the young, begrimed soldier holds up his hand in what is now the peace symbol, but at the time meant: "Do you have a cigarette?"

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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