dirties
SayDUR-teezUS/ˈdɝtiz/UK/ˈdɜːtiz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of dirty.
The factory dirties the river with chemical runoff each summer.
She dirties every dish in the kitchen when she bakes.
Note
The final -y of dirty turns to -ie- before the -s ending. The form serves both halves of the verb. Used transitively, it takes an object, and that object can be literal or moral: runoff dirties a river, a scandal dirties a name, a slanted account dirties the facts it reports. Used intransitively, it needs no object at all: pale linen dirties quickly.
dirties is a form of dirty
dirty, verb: To make something dirty or soiled, or to become dirty. Full entry
- Spelling
- dirty → dirties: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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