Dirtying

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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, […]"

  2. 2
    the act of soiling something wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of dirty form-of, gerund, participle, present

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abominationcorruptioninfectionpollutionsoilingsoiling

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"Some spaghetti fell on the badge of the uniform, dirtying it."

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