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dirtying


Meanings
  • The act of making something dirty or unclean.

    - "She accidentally dirtying her white shirt."
    - "The children loved playing in the mud and dirtying each other."
    - "The kitchen floor was always getting dirtying from dropped food and spills."
    - "The industrial plant had large smokestacks that continuously dirtying the air with pollutants."

Synonyms

soil , taint , sully
Variants
List of all variants of dirtying that leads to same result
dirtied , dirties , dirty , dirtying
Etymology
origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

The word 'dirtying' is a present participle formed by adding the suffix '-ing' to the base word 'dirty'. The base word 'dirty' comes from Old English 'dir', meaning 'defiled, polluted, foul, unclean'. The word 'dirtying' thus means 'making something dirty or unclean' or 'defiling, polluting, fouling, or making unclean'.


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