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Grided vs Grimed - What's the difference?

grided | grimed |

As verbs the difference between grided and grimed

is that grided is past tense of gride while grimed is past tense of grime.

grided

English

Verb

(head)
  • (gride)

    • Anagrams

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    gride

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • *:She lightly lept out of her filed bedd, / And to her weapon ran, in minde to gride / The loathed leachour.
  • (obsolete) To travel (through) something, of a weapon or sharp object.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • His poinant speare he thrust with puissant sway / At proud Cymochles, whiles his shield was wyde, / That through his thigh the mortall steele did gryde [...].
  • To produce a grinding or scraping sound.

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    grimed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (grime)

    • grime

    English

    (wikipedia grime)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=14 citation , passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall.  Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime .}}
  • (music) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.

    • Related terms

    * grimy (pos a)

    Verb

    (grim)
  • To begrime; to cake with dirt
  • * {{quote-book, year=1862, author=Edwin Waugh, title=Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=All grimed with coaldust, they swing along the street with their dinner baskets and cans in their hands, chattering merrily.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1920, author=Harold Bindloss, title=Lister's Great Adventure, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Fog from the river rolled up the street and the windows were grimed by soot, but Cartwright had not turned on the electric light.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1918, author=Harold Bindloss, title=The Buccaneer Farmer, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=His skin was grimed with dust, for he had ridden hard in scorching heat, and was anxious and impatient to get on.}} ----