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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lūbricātus, past participle of lūbricō (“make slippery”), from lūbricus (“slippery”).
Pronunciation
Verb
lubricate (third-person singular simple present lubricates, present participle lubricating, simple past and past participle lubricated)
- To make slippery or smooth (normally to minimize friction) by applying a lubricant.
The prostitute lubricated her ass before getting ass-fucked.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to make slippery or smooth
- Bulgarian: смазвам (bg) (smazvam)
- Catalan: lubricar (ca), lubrificar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 潤滑／润滑 (zh) (rùnhuá)
- Czech: mazat (cs)
- Dutch: smeren (nl)
- Esperanto: lubriki
- Estonian: määrima
- Finnish: voidella (fi)
- French: lubrifier (fr)
- German: schmieren (de)
- Greek: λιπαίνω (el) (lipaíno)
- Hungarian: ken (hu), síkosít, olajoz (hu), beolajoz (hu), zsíroz (hu), bezsíroz (hu), megolajoz (hu)
- Ido: lubrifikar (io)
- Italian: lubrificare (it)
- Japanese: 注油する (ja) (ちゅうゆする, chūyu-suru)
- Khmer: ដាក់ប្រេង (dakpreeng)
- Ladin: onjer, onje
- Latin: lūbricō
- Maori: whakamaene
- Ottoman Turkish: یاغلامق (yağlamak)
- Piedmontese: lubrifiché
- Portuguese: lubrificar (pt)
- Romanian: lubrifia (ro)
- Russian: сма́зывать (ru) impf (smázyvatʹ), сма́зать (ru) pf (smázatʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: lìomh
- Spanish: lubricar (es), lubrificar (es)
- Swedish: smörja (sv)
- Tagalog: danlugan
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: yağlamak (tr)
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Further reading
- “lubricate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “lubricate”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “lubricate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Verb
lūbricāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of lūbricō
Spanish
Verb
lubricate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of lubricar combined with te