COLLY (collied, collier, colliest)

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Irregular inflected forms: collied    , collier    , colliest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does colly mean? 

• COLLY (verb)
  The verb COLLY has 1 sense:

1. make soiled, filthy, or dirty

  Familiarity information: COLLY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make soiled, filthy, or dirty

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

begrime; bemire; colly; dirty; grime; soil

Context example:

don't soil your clothes when you play outside!

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