Present participle of grime; the process of becoming covered with grime or making something grimy.
Grime + -ing (present participle suffix). Grime can be used as a verb meaning 'to make grimy.'
Victorian London was so griming that buildings needed cleaning every 5-10 years rather than every 50—coal smoke was adding layers of soot faster than time could weather it away.
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