Thesaurus:dirty

Thesaurus

dirty

English

Verb

Sense: to make physically dirty

Synonyms

• assoil (obsolete)
• beclart (UK dialect)
• bedaub (obsolete)
• bedirty
• bedizen (UK dialect)
• befile (obsolete)
• befilth (rare)
• befoul
• begrime
• beray (archaic or obsolete)
• besmear
• besmirch
• besully
• bewray (archaic or obsolete)
• blacken
• blot
• blur (obsolete)
• clat
• contaminate
• darken
• defile
• denigrate (rare)
• dirty
• drag through the mud
• dull
• elt (Northern England, Scotland)
• foil (obsolete)
• foul
• gunk
• gunk up
• inquinate
• pollute
• scunge
• sling mud
• slotter
• slur
• smirch
• smudge
• smutch
• soil
• soss (UK dialect)
• sowl
• spoil    [⇒ thesaurus]
• spot    [⇒ thesaurus]
• stain
• sullow
• sully
• taint
• tarnish
• uggle (UK dialect, obsolete)

Antonyms

• clean    [⇒ thesaurus]
• make clean    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• bedraggle
• bespatter
• misguggle
• thumb
•   —
• beblood
• begrease
• bemire
• bemoil
• bemud
• bepiss (possibly vulgar, archaic)
• beshit (possibly vulgar)
• beslime
• beslurry
• besoot
• bespew
• clart (UK dialect)
• mire
• muddy
• slop
• smutty
•   —
• crap oneself (vulgar, slang)
• shit oneself (vulgar, slang)

Various

• pollute

See also

• Thesaurus:unclean
• Thesaurus:worsen

Further reading

• “653. uncleanness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “dirty” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.