oiled

Speech parts

1. oiled - Adjective

2. oiled - Verb

Meaning

of Oil

Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

high malted loaded tight lit drunk coated polluted smashed slippery oily grease pickled intoxicated slick
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Antonyms

unoiled level DRY straight rough steady
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Related terms

oiler

Phrases with the word

well-oiled machine oiled paper oiled the wheels of

Anagrams

Delio deoil eolid oldie

Examples

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing. Joris-Karl Huysmans

That jewelled mass of millinery, That oiled and curled Assyrian Bull. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back. Ellen Swallow Richards

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil. Henry Ward Beecher

Badly oiled wheels will squeak. Russian Proverb

Don't use oiled paper to wrap up fire. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Oildale oildom oildown oiled paper oiled silk oiled the wheels of