lubricate
verb🔊/ˈluːbrɪkeɪt/
🔊/ˈluːbrɪkeɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they lubricate | 🔊/ˈluːbrɪkeɪt/ 🔊/ˈluːbrɪkeɪt/ |
| he / she / it lubricates | 🔊/ˈluːbrɪkeɪts/ 🔊/ˈluːbrɪkeɪts/ |
| past simple lubricated | 🔊/ˈluːbrɪkeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈluːbrɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle lubricated | 🔊/ˈluːbrɪkeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈluːbrɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form lubricating | 🔊/ˈluːbrɪkeɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈluːbrɪkeɪtɪŋ/ |
- 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’.