Oil and Soak

Oil

Oil verb - To coat (something) with a slippery substance in order to reduce friction.

Usage example: if you oil the machinery on a regular basis, it will operate more efficiently

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Soak and oil are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Soak" instead a verb "Oil".

Nearby Words: oily, oiled, oiler, oiling

Soak verb - To wet thoroughly with liquid.

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Oil and soak are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Oil" instead a verb "Soak".

Nearby Words: soaked, soaking, soaker

blade	oil blade	soak blade
bodies	oil bodies	soak bodies

Americans are known for coming up with crazy ideas that just happen to work like using human hair to soak up oil.

Source: MacGyvering
Then Frasier accidentally sets off a music box that plays romantic music, knocks over a bottle of musk oil trying to turn it off, and when Kate grabs a sheet to soak up the oil, it turns out to be covering a huge blow-up of a bodice-ripper cover.

Source: Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere
But it oxidizes quickly in an exothermic reaction, strong enough that if you soak a rag in linseed oil and then leave it to dry crumpled up, the amount of surface area in a limited space means that the heat builds up very quickly.

Source: Made of Explodium

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