grease

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass. === Pronunciation === Noun (General American) enPR: grēs, IPA(key): /ɡɹis/ (UK) enPR: grēs, IPA(key): /ɡɹiːs/ Rhymes: -iːs Homophone: Greece Verb (UK) enPR: grēs, IPA(key): /ɡɹiːs/ (General American) enPR: grēs, grēz, IPA(key): /ɡɹis/, /ɡɹiz/ Rhymes: -iːs (UK, US) Rhymes: -iːz (US) === Noun === grease (countable and uncountable, plural greases) Animal fat in a melted or soft state. (by extension) Any oily or fatty matter. Shorn but not yet cleansed wool. Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis. (slang) Money. (slang, dated, printing) Synonym of fat (“work containing much blank, profitable to the compositor”). ==== Synonyms ==== (animal fat): fat, lard ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Tok Pisin: gris ==== Translations ==== === Verb === grease (third-person singular simple present greases, present participle greasing, simple past and past participle greased) (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate. Synonym: lard (transitive, informal) To bribe. (transitive, informal) To cause to go easily; to facilitate. (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly. (transitive, slang) To kill. Synonyms: wax, whack, bump off, hit; see also Thesaurus:kill (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate (obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach. To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease. To depart or slip away. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== ⇒ Tok Pisin: grisim ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === geares, Seager, aegers, eagres, Seegar, Saeger, Eagers, searge, eagers, ægers, agrees