dirtied
SayDUR-teedUS/ˈdɝtid/UK/ˈdɜːtid/
- 1Simple past and past participle of dirty.
The flood dirtied every house along the river.
His reputation was dirtied by a string of false accusations.
Note
A regular past form with one spelling change: the final -y of dirty turns to -i- before -ed, as in carried or worried. Because the verb also works without an object, it can report a change on its own: the white cuffs dirtied within an hour. Beside the adjective, dirtied keeps the sense of something done. A dirty glove is simply unclean, while a dirtied glove has been soiled by something.
dirtied is a form of dirty
dirty, verb: To make something dirty or soiled, or to become dirty. Full entry
- Spelling
- dirty → dirtied: change y to i, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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