verb
- Make soiled, filthy, or dirty.
- usage: "don't soil your clothes when you play outside"
adjective
- Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime.
- usage: "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
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