degreaser
noun
degreaser is a noun meaning “An industrial solvent, often containing polyhalogenated hydrocarbons, used to remove grease from mechanical parts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-G-R-E-A-S-E-R, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of degreaser is degreasers.
What does degreaser mean?
noun
- 1
An industrial solvent, often containing polyhalogenated hydrocarbons, used to remove grease from mechanical parts.
- 2
A machine that accomplishes this task.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce degreaser?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-degreaser.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of degreaser
- degreasers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is degreaser?
Degreaser appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st 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).
Degreaser in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense solvent:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | desengrasador |
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 degreaser come from?
From degrease + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).