DEGREASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does degrease mean? 

• DEGREASE (verb)
  The verb DEGREASE has 1 sense:

1. remove grease or oil from (a pan)

  Familiarity information: DEGREASE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEGREASE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they degrease    ... he / she / it degreases   
Past simple: degreased   
Past participle: degreased   
-ing form: degreasing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove grease or oil from (a pan)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "degrease" is one way to...):

get rid of; remove (dispose of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Methylene chloride is primarily used as a solvent in paint removers, but is also used in aerosol formulations, as a solvent in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, as a degreasing agent, in electronics manufacturing and as an ethane foam blowing agent.

(Methylene Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)