Auto mechanics finish up the workday with grime all over their hands.
Source: tatoeba (567772)
Grime
//ɡɹaɪm//
Synonyms for "grime" (42 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (21)
Related word relations
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5 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesat location
1 entriesderived
8 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
Translations
45 translations across 22 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- njollë noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кир noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- мръсотия noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Catalan
3 entries- brutícia noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- sutge noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- sutja noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 污垢 noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Czech
1 entries- (zažraná) špína noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Dutch
2 entries- afval noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- viezigheid noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Finnish
4 entries- grime noun (A type of music)
- karsta noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- pinttymä noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- pinttynyt lika noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
French
2 entries- crasse noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- saleté noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Galician
2 entries- cotra noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- lorda noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
German
2 entries- Ruß noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- Schmutz noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Hungarian
3 entries- kosz noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- mocsok noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- piszok noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Italian
2 entries- incrostazione noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- sporco ostinato noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Macedonian
1 entries- кир noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Māori
1 entries- pakānoni noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Portuguese
2 entries- encardimento noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- grime noun (A type of music)
Russian
2 entries- въевшаяся грязь noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- грайм noun (A type of music)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- garež noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Spanish
4 entries- carca noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- mugre noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- pringue noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- roña noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Swedish
3 entries- fet smuts noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- smuts noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- sot noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Tocharian B
1 entries- krāke noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бруд noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- леп noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Welsh
2 entries- baw noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
- parddu noun (Dirt that is ingrained and difficult to remove)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Tom is covered in dirt and grime.
Source: tatoeba (3428666)
Soap can clean grime.
Source: tatoeba (4091843)
The fly running on the mirror doesn't worry about its reflection on the points of its legs from which it sits and runs; but on the contrary, it sees on the smooth surface a quantity of very small things which interest it and which we confuse with dust and grime.
Source: tatoeba (6840759)
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