Definition of Bemire

1. Verb. Make soiled, filthy, or dirty. "Don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"

Exact synonyms: Begrime, Colly, Dirty, Grime, Soil
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

bemerded
bemerding
bemerds
bemesetron
bemete
bemeted
bemetes
bemeting
bemind
beminded
beming
bemingle
bemingled
bemingles
bemingling
bemire (current term)
bemired
bemires
bemiring
bemirror
bemist
bemisted
bemisting
bemists
bemittened
bemix
bemixed
bemixes
bemixing
bemixt

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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