Another word for grease | Synonyms for grease

Another word for grease

grease Synonyms

grease

n.

oil, wax, fat, lubricant, salve, Vaseline (trademark), unguent, goose grease, chicken fat, olive oil, cottonseed oil, peanut oil; see also fat.

Lubricating greases include: axle grease, hard oil, graphite, lithium grease, petroleum jelly, hypoid lubricant.

grease Synonyms

grease

v.

oil, lubricate, smear, salve, coat with oil, rub with oil, cream, daub, inunct, pomade, grease the wheels, anoint, swab, give a grease job*, lube*.

WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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He continued testing the tension on his bike chain, wiping the grease on a paper napkin.
Yellow and red ochre mixed with grease are coarsely smeared over the bodies, grey in coarse patterns and white in fine patterns resembling tattoo marks.
The head hair is usually matted with grease and dirt, but when clean is fine and glossy.
The growth of missionary enterprise in India lent colour to this theory, which was supported by the fact that no precautions had been taken to grease the Indian cartridges with a neutral fat, such as that of sheep and goats.
The foul smelling grease turned her stomach.

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