Meaning

1 senses

  1. To mark a surface with such images.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Within 30 seconds they had graffitied a message on the gallery wall and glued themselves to the heavy gilt frames encasing two masterpieces.

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Translations

3 languages

Origin

Borrowed from Italian graffiti, from graffito, from graffire, borrowed from Ancient Greek

Borrowed from Italian graffiti, from graffito, from graffire, borrowed from Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō, “to write”), from Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-.

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Forms

graffitis, graffitiing, graffitied, graffitied
Base formgraffiti · to graffiti
3rd person singulargraffitis
Present participlegraffitiing
Past simplegraffitied
Past participlegraffitied

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygraffiti
he, she, itgraffitis

Past simpleLesson

all personsgraffitied

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill graffiti

Word family

4 related words
Relatedhip-hopA2street arttaggingsgraffito

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
graduateB1graduationB1graffitograftC2grafting
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