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COLLY
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Irregular inflected forms: collied , collier , colliest
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make soiled, filthy, or dirty
Example:
don't soil your clothes when you play outside!
Synonyms:
begrime; bemire; colly; dirty; grime; soil
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "colly" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "colly"):
foul (make unclean)
contaminate; foul; pollute (make impure)
smear (stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance)
slime (cover or stain with slime)
muddy; muddy up (dirty with mud)
splash (soil or stain with a splashed liquid)
mire; muck; muck up; mud (soil with mud, muck, or mire)
crock (soil with or as with crock)
blemish; spot (mar or impair with a flaw)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
