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Definition of Bemire
1. Verb. Make soiled, filthy, or dirty. "Don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Foul, Contaminate, Foul, Pollute, Smear, Slime, Muddy, Muddy Up, Splash, Mire, Muck, Muck Up, Mud, Crock, Blemish, Spot
Antonyms: Clean
Derivative terms: Dirtying, Grime, Soil, Soiling, Soilure
Definition of Bemire
1. v. t. To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.
Definition of Bemire
1. Verb. To soil (or be soiled) with mud ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bemire
1. to soil with mud [v -MIRED, -MIRING, -MIRES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bemire
Literary usage of Bemire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Zulu-Kafir Dictionary: Etymologically Explained, with Copious by Jacob Ludwig Döhne (1857)
"To throw adhesive matter upon a surface or body; to daub; to bemire; ... To dirty
over or on ; to bemire. More particularly applied to infants when they ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"The lit. sense is to bemire, to cover with mud ; a causal verb, formed (by regular
... + Swed. sola, to bemire ; Dan. sole, to bemire, from sal, mire. ..."
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