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