"dirtying" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-dirtying.wav [US] Forms: dirtyings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dirtying (plural dirtyings)
  1. A soiling or making dirty.
    Sense id: en-dirtying-en-noun-pYa5BG2e

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-dirtying.wav [US]
Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} dirtying
  1. present participle and gerund of dirty Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: dirty
    Sense id: en-dirtying-en-verb-lhWEg9Mq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96

Inflected forms

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