grease

1. 1.

   lubricate with grease

   “grease the wheels”

   Broadercover

Other forms of grease

plural

greases·

past tense

greased·

present participle

greasing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about grease

What does grease mean?

grease means "a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grease?

grease has 1 syllable: grease. In IPA it is /ˈɡɹis/.

What is another word for grease?

Close synonyms include lubricating oil, dirt, filth, grime, soil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grease a common word?

grease is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with grease?

1 word rhymes with grease. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.