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/lˈubrɪkˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Lubricate v. t.

To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. "Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine."

To apply a lubricant to, as oil or tallow.

Hence: To reduce social frictions or difficulties between people, thus making cooperation easier and joint action smoother.

To inebriate by supplying with alcoholic beverages. (slang)

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Etymology of 'Lubricate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lubricate" Quotes from Famous Books

... facilitate the act of deglutition. It has been observed with justice that few worse instruments for such a purpose than the slender dark forked tongue of these snakes could have been contrived: and that, in fact, the saliva does not begin to be poured out abundantly till required to lubricate the jaws and throat of the animal straining to engulph the carcass. We have seen these snakes take their food, but they did not lubricate it, though the vibratory tongue often touched it; we must, therefore, withhold our credence from the ...

— Forest & Frontiers • G. A. Henty

... philosophy, if nature never did any useless work or made anything in vain. At this time I saw the doors all open and a good chance for the loaded mind to unload and give us other uses for ear-wax than bug food, and to lubricate the auditory nerves with dry wax. At this time of my desire to know some positive use or object that nature had in forming so much fine machinery and no use for its products when made, but to pull out of the head with a hairpin, I reasoned about so, that this ...

— Philosophy of Osteopathy • Andrew T. Still

... boxes were filled with soft plaster while Rick coated the Egyptian cat with oil used to lubricate the antenna bearings. The cat was pushed into one box until only half of it showed. The plasterer smoothed ...

— The Egyptian Cat Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin

... been fishing!" thought Roy, but he did not say so, only gave orders for the bridge to be lowered again, and sent a man for a supply of grease to well lubricate the ...

— The Young Castellan - A Tale of the English Civil War • George Manville Fenn

... grasps them. At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dextrous jerk soon twists him down And wins them, but to lose them in his turn. Here rills of oily eloquence, in soft Meanders, lubricate the course they take; The modest speaker is ashamed and grieved To engross a moment's notice, and yet begs, Begs a propitious ear for his poor thoughts, However trivial all that he conceives. Sweet bashfulness! ...

— The Task and Other Poems • William Cowper

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