Synonyms of the word grease


GREASECOVER - DIRT - DIRTINESS - FILTH - GRIME - GRUNGE - OIL - SOIL - STAIN - UNCLEANNESS

grease

  • n. Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
  • n. (extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
  • n. Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
  • n. Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
  • v. (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To bribe.
  • v. (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To kill, murder.
  • v. (obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
  • v. To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

cover

  • n. A lid.
  • n. A hiding from view.
  • n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
  • n. A top sheet of a bed.
  • n. A cover charge.
  • n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
  • n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
  • n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
  • n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
  • n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
  • n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
  • n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
  • n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
  • n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
  • n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
  • n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
  • adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
  • v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
  • v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
  • v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
  • v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
  • v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
  • v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
  • v. To deal with.
  • v. To be enough money for.
  • v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
  • v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
  • v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
  • v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
  • v. To provide insurance coverage for.
  • v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
  • v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
  • v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

dirt

  • n. Soil or earth.
  • n. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
  • n. Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip.
  • n. (figuratively) Meanness; sordidness.
  • n. (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
  • v. (transitive, rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty.

dirtiness

  • n. The state or quality of being dirty.

filth

  • n. Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
  • n. Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
  • n. (Britain, pejorative, slang, with definite article) The police.
  • n. (US, agriculture, dated) Weeds growing on pasture land.

grime

  • n. Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
  • n. (music) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development…
  • v. To begrime; to cake with dirt.

grunge

  • n. (informal) Dirt or filth, especially when difficult to clean.
  • n. (informal) The state of being filthy; grubbiness.
  • n. (music) A subgenre of alternative rock, originating from Seattle, Washington, which melds punk and metal.

oil

  • n. Liquid fat.
  • n. Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
  • n. An oil painting.
  • v. (transitive) To lubricate with oil.
  • v. (transitive) To grease with oil for cooking.

soil

  • n. (uncountable) A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
  • n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that…
  • n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected…
  • n. Country or territory.
  • n. That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
  • n. A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract…
  • n. Dung; compost; manure.
  • v. (transitive) To make dirty.
  • v. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
  • v. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
  • v. To make invalid, to ruin.
  • v. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
  • n. (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
  • n. (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
  • n. A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
  • v. To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them,…

stain

  • n. A discoloured spot or area.
  • n. A blemish on one's character or reputation.
  • n. A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
  • n. A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
  • v. To discolour something.
  • v. To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation.
  • v. To coat a surface with a stain.
  • v. (cytology) To treat a microscope specimen with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features.
  • v. To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.

uncleanness

  • n. (uncountable) The state of being unclean.
  • n. (countable) The result or product of being unclean.

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