gravy

Speech parts

1. gravy - Noun

2. gravy - Verb

Meaning

The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.

Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

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Antonyms

loss fixed debt poverty frozen obligation
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Hypernyms

occurrence sauce juice happening occurrent natural event

Phrases with the word

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Derivatives

gravies

Examples

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. Sydney Smith

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. Erma Bombeck

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. Bette Davis

International rock star - gravy maker extraordinaire. Ozzy Osbourne

The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place. Clive James

Taking water from the same well doesn't make all the wives' gravy taste good. Ivorian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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