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as a verb: - 1
grease
noun
1 grease
A thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery).
synonym: lubricating oil.
Roget 784:
giving
etc.
v.;
bestowal,
bestowment†,
donation;
presentation,
presentment;
accordance;
concession;
delivery,
consignment,
dispensation,
communication,
endowment;
investment,
investiture;
award.
almsgiving†,
charity,
liberality,
generosity.
[Thing given]
gift,
donation,
present,
cadeau†;
fairing;
free gift,
boon,
favor,
benefaction,
grant,
offering,
oblation,
sacrifice,
immolation;
lagniappe [U.S.],
pilon [U.S.].
grace,
act of grace,
bonus.
allowance,
contribution,
subscription,
subsidy,
tribute,
subvention.
bequest,
legacy,
devise,
will,
dotation†,
dot,
appanage;
voluntary settlement,
voluntary conveyance
etc.
783;
amortization.
alms,
largess,
bounty,
dole,
sportule†,
donative†,
help,
oblation,
offertory,
honorarium,
gratuity,
Peter pence,
sportula†,
Christmas box,
Easter offering,
vail†,
douceur [Fr.],
drink money,
pourboire,
trinkgeld [G.],
bakshish†;
fee
etc.
(recompense)
973;
consideration.
bribe,
bait,
ground bait;
peace offering,
handsel;
boodle [Slang],
graft,
grease [Slang];
blat [Rus.].
giver,
grantor
etc.
v.;
donor,
feoffer†,
settlor.
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Roget 356:
oil,
fat,
butter,
cream,
grease,
tallow,
suet,
lard,
dripping exunge†,
blubber;
glycerin,
stearin,
elaine [Chem],
oleagine†;
soap;
soft soap,
wax,
cerement;
paraffin,
spermaceti,
adipocere†;
petroleum,
mineral,
mineral rock,
mineral crystal,
mineral oil;
vegetable oil,
colza oil†,
olive oil,
salad oil,
linseed oil,
cottonseed oil,
soybean oil,
nut oil;
animal oil,
neat's foot oil,
train oil;
ointment,
unguent,
liniment;
aceite†,
amole†,
Barbados tar†;
fusel oil,
grain oil,
rape oil,
seneca oil;
hydrate of amyl,
ghee†;
heating oil,
#2 oil,
No. 2 oil,
distillate,
residual oils,
kerosene,
jet fuel,
gasoline,
naphtha;
stearin.
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Roget 332:
smoothness
etc.
255;
unctuousness
etc.
355.
lubrication,
lubrification†;
anointment;
oiling
etc.
v..
synovia [Anat.];
glycerine,
oil,
lubricating oil,
grease
etc.
356;
saliva;
lather.
teflon.
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Dutch: olie, smeer, smeermiddel, smeersel, smeervet, strijksel, vet
Polish: olej smarowy
2 grease
The state of being covered with unclean things.
synonyms: dirt, filth, grime, grunge, soil, stain.
Dutch: vet, afval, vuiligheid, vuil, derrie, smurrie, viezigheid
Polish: zabrudzenie się, pobrudzenie się, uwalanie się
verb
1 grease
Moby thesaurus: Trinkgeld, adulation, aid, animal oil, anoint, approach, beeswax, blandishment, blarney, blunt, bonus, boodle, bounty, brass, bread, bribe, bucks, bunkum, buy, buy off, cabbage, cajolement, cajolery, cerate, chips, clear the way, compliment, consideration, corrupt, dab, daub, dinero, donative, double time, dough, drag, dress, drying oil, dub, ease, embrocate, equalize, essential oil, ester, even, expedite, explain, eyewash, facilitate, fair words, fat, fatty oil, fawning, fee, fix, fixed oil, flatten, flattery, gelt, get at, get to, gilt, glycerolate, grade, gratuity, gravy, grease the palm, grease the ways, grease the wheels, green, green stuff, harrow, hasten, help along, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, honorarium, hydrogenated fat, incense, incentive pay, inducement, jack, kale, lagniappe, lard, largess, lay, level, liberality, lipid, loose, lubricate, make clear, make way for, mazuma, mineral oil, moolah, mopus, mow, oil, oil of palms, ointment, oleum, oof, ooftish, open the way, open up, palaver, palm oil, pave the way, pay off, perks, perquisite, plane, planish, plaster, polyunsaturated fat, pomade, pourboire, praise, premium, prepare the way, pretty lies, purchase, quicken, reach, remove friction, rhino, rocks, run interference for, salve, sebum, shave, shekels, simoleons, simplify, slick, slick on, smear, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, smooth the way, soap, soap the ways, soft soap, something extra, speed, spondulics, sportula, suborn, sugar, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sweetener, sycophancy, take care of, tallow, tamper with, the needful, tickle the palm, tin, tip, unbar, unblock, unclog, unguent, unjam, unsaturated fat, vegetable oil, volatile oil, wampum, wax, wheedling ... show more.
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