oil
/ɔɪl/ verb C2- To lubricate with oil.
- To grease with oil for cooking.
- To fuel with oil.
- To say in an unctuous manner.
He/she/it oils · Past oiled · Past participle oiled · -ing form oiling
Verb forms
- Base form
- oil
- He/she/it
- oils
- Past
- oiled
- Past participle
- oiled
- -ing form
- oiling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He rushed downstairs and sent somebody—they said the furnace man or somebody in the basement—out to a drug store for some oil and things to bind it up with.
“It’s something soft,” said Delia, “that had oil on it.
And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron.
He went away for a dust bath under the castor-oil bushes, while Teddy’s father beat the dead Karait.
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