English Explanatory Dictionary

grease

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
  2. Any oily or fatty matter.
  3. Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
  4. Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
  5. Money.
  6. Synonym of fat (“work containing much blank, profitable to the compositor”).
verb
  1. To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
  2. To bribe.
  3. To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
  4. To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
  5. To kill.
  6. To have sexual intercourse with.
  7. To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
  8. To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
  9. To depart or slip away.

Pronunciation

grēs /ɡɹis/ /ɡɹiːs/ en-us-grease.ogg grēz /ɡɹiz/

Word forms

grease greases greasing greased

Etymology

From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass.

Synonyms

fat lard wax whack bump off hit annihilate bag baptize bereave of life blight bring down bury cack compromised to a permanent end croak crush dash deactivate dead demolish destroy dispatch dispose of do do in dust eliminate end eradicate ex exterminate finish finish off flatten grease knock off lay waste to make away with merc mortify neutralize obliterate off pay off pick off polish off pop off punch someone's ticket put an end to put down put someone out of their misery put six feet under put to sleep ravage rub out ruin scotch scupper scuttle

Derived words

amber grease amber-grease apple grease bacon grease bear's grease begrease boot-grease cow grease cow's grease dielectric grease dirty grease elbow grease elbow-grease golden grease goose grease greaseball greaseband greaseboard greasebomb grease-box grease boy greaseburger grease bush grease fitting greasegrass grease gun grease-gun greasehead greaseless greaselike grease money grease monkey grease-monkey grease moth greasen grease nipple greasepaint grease-paint grease payment grease pencil grease pit grease pot greaseproof grease spot grease the skids grease up greasewood greasiness greasy hart of grease like grease through a goose more grease to your elbow relative bearing grease silicone grease stew in one's own grease thermal grease the squeaky wheel gets the grease ungrease wool grease yellow grease
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