degrease
verb
degrease is a verb meaning “To remove grease from something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-G-R-E-A-S-E, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does degrease mean?
verb
- 1
To remove grease from something.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce degrease?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-degrease.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of degrease
- degreases present, singular, he/she/it
- degreasing participle, present
- degreased participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is degrease?
Degrease appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Degrease in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense To remove grease from something:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dégraisser |
| German | entfetten |
| Spanish | desengrasar, desgrasar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does degrease come from?
From de- + grease.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).