grimer
French, verb/ɡʁi.me/
grimer is spelled G-R-I-M-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 126,551st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grimer is a French verb meaning “to make up, to paint (apply make up or face paint to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Peindre des rides sur le visage, transformer le visage en le vieillissant”.
What does grimer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make up, to paint (apply make up or face paint to)
- 2
to make (someone's face) look older
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Peindre des rides sur le visage, transformer le visage en le vieillissant. 2. Farder, maquiller.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of grimer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- grimant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- grimé participle past
- grime first-person indicative present
- grimes indicative present second-person
- grimons first-person indicative plural
- grimez indicative plural present
- griment indicative plural present
- grimais first-person imperfect indicative
- grimait imperfect indicative singular
- grimions first-person imperfect indicative
- grimiez imperfect indicative plural
- grimaient imperfect indicative plural
- grimai first-person historic indicative
- grimas historic indicative past
- grima historic indicative past
- grimâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grimer?
- /ɡʁi.me/
- \ɡʁi.me\
- [ɡʁime]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is grimer in French?
grimer appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).