Meaning

1 senses

  1. (rare)To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

Examples

232 sentences

  1. He will make you eat dirt.

    ruОн заставит тебя унизиться. — RusVictoric1993

    deEr wird dich dazu bringen, dass du ihm die Stiefel leckst. — Tickler

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  2. Clean the dirt off the mirror.

    ruУдалите грязь с зеркала. — Ivanovb

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  3. Tom lives on a dirt road.

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  4. A little dirt won't hurt you.

    deEin bißchen Schmutz tut nicht weh. — Waldelfe

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  5. The children were playing in the dirt.

    ruДети играли в грязи. — odexed

    deDie Kinder haben im Dreck gespielt. — Vortarulo

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Origin

From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germ

From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *dritą, *dritō (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd-, *treydʰ- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with dialectal Danish and Norn drit (“excrement”), Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), dialectal Swedish dret (“shit”), Faroese and Icelandic drit (“bird excrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”), drijt and dreet (“excrement”), Low German drieten (“to defecate”), Driet (“shit”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ġedrītan (“to defecate”).

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Forms

dirts, dirting, dirted, dirted
Base formdirt · to dirt
3rd person singulardirts
Present participledirting
Past simpledirted
Past participledirted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydirt
he, she, itdirts

Past simpleLesson

all personsdirted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave dirted
he, she, ithas dirted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill dirt

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
dirgedirigibledirtyA1

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