lubricate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they lubricate | |
| he / she / it lubricates | |
| past simple lubricated | |
| past participle lubricated | |
| -ing form lubricating |
- lubricate something
to put a lubricant on something such as the parts of a machine, to help them move smoothly 给…上润滑油；上油 Oxford Collocations DictionaryLubricate is used with these nouns as the object:- engine
- joint
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin lubricat- ‘made slippery’, from the verb lubricare, from lubricus ‘slippery’.