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degrease

degrease verb: to remove grease from something.

Verb

degrease (third-person singular simple present degreases, present participle degreasing, simple past and past participle degreased)

  1. (transitive) To remove grease from something.

degrease meaning in Tamil

degrease in Tamil

மசகு நீக்கம், மசகுநீக்கம்

Forms of degrease

third-person singular presentdegreases
present participledegreasing
past participledegreased
pastdegreased

Origin of degrease

From de- + grease.

Words formed from degrease

Questions about degrease

What does degrease mean?
Degrease means to remove grease from something.
What is degrease in Tamil?
Degrease in Tamil is மசகு நீக்கம், மசகுநீக்கம். See Degrease meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is degrease?
Degrease is a verb.
What is the past tense of degrease?
The past tense of degrease is degreased.

Words near degrease in the dictionary

  1. Degray
  2. Degrays
  3. degre
  4. degreasant
  5. degreasants
  6. degrease
  7. degreased
  8. degreaser
  9. degreasers
  10. degreases
  11. degreasing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: degrease (page history and authors); degrease (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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