grease
Other forms: greased; greasing; greases
Grease is the thick oil you use to make a machine work more smoothly. It's also the shiny, slick substance produced by cooking something in fat, like the grease on that fried chicken you made.
As a verb, grease means to make something slick and oily so it can move more easily: "You should grease the hinges to stop the door from creaking." As a noun grease is the kind of oil or fat that's solid at room temperature, whether it's the grease you use to repair a car engine or the grease you use to deep fry onion rings. Colloquially, when you grease someone's palm, you offer them money as a bribe.
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a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)synonyms: lubricating oiltypes:axle greasea thick heavy grease used to lubricate axlestype of:oila slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
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the state of being covered with unclean things
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lubricate with grease“grease the wheels”type of:coverprovide with a covering or cause to be covered
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