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lubricate

verb as in make slippery

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Rub this cream inside your chamois or bike shorts to help keep things lubricated, which prevents chafing and hot spots.

There could also be fluids that lubricate the fault, decreasing friction and making it easier for the plates to slip past each other.

First and foremost, it’s important to keep your belt lubricated to keep it functioning at optimal use and stave off repairs.

Enthusiasts often build their own boards and nerd out over things like lubricating the switches for a perfectly silky feel.

Even a well lubricated chain-drive model will be louder than a belt-drive or wall-mounted garage door opener.

Beauty, fame, It Girl status, and old money (never new) all lubricate the entry process.

This oil was used to lubricate the anemometer and other instruments exposed outside.

Lubricate the embossed cams in the cam housing with a thin film of vaseline every fifty hours of actual running.

Lubricate the stopper and insert it in the mouth of the jar, with the handle in a line with the two side tubes.

When the pressure on the pin or any bearing is over 800 pounds per square inch, oil is no longer able to lubricate it properly.

The next operation after moulding the bullets is to lubricate them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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