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noun a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)
noun the state of being covered with unclean things
verb lubricate with grease
originFrom Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass.
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