Crossword-Solution: GREASE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Grease | n. | Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind. |
| Grease | n. | An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences. |
| Grease | v. t. | To smear, anoint, or daub, with grease or fat; to lubricate; as, to grease the wheels of a wagon. |
| Grease | v. t. | To bribe; to corrupt with presents. |
| Grease | v. t. | To cheat or cozen; to overreach. |
| Grease | v. t. | To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GREASE | anagram | AGREES, EAGRES, SEEGAR |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GREASE (5)
Many of the lights had quite gone out, others smoked and stank, grease dropping from them upon the floor.
Some of them Thea had never before seen out of their working clothes, smeared with grease from the round-house or clay from the brickyard.
The old Welshman came home toward daylight, spattered with candle-grease, smeared with clay, and almost worn out.
Well, I got a good going-over in the morning from old Miss Watson on account of my clothes; but the widow she didn’t scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay, and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave a while if I could.
Miles dragged himself to many of the social functions that grease the wheels of motion in Washington.
Quotes with GREASE (3)
I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested. No?” Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.
We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatter…
the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 157 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).