0 present participle of dirty --
1 to make something dirty: --
A household or workplace may be said to exhibit cleanliness, but not ordinarily purity; cleanliness also would be a characteristic of the people who maintain cleanness or prevent dirtying.
The idea was to create art by soaking, staining, dirtying or outright destroying the wedding gown.
Last years study revealed that 75% of dishcloths were extremely dirty indicating that when people think they are cleaning, they are actually dirtying.
Makeup is applied before dressing to avoid dirtying the kimono.
The insistence on the gentlemanly status of the figures is maintained since they are shown standing, engrossed in thought or conversing rather than at work, dirtying their hands.
In order to start from here, we must first start from there, and that means dirtying our hands with long-forgotten primary sources.
