degrease
Americanverb (used with object)
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A few drops of dishwashing liquid and a plastic scrubber will remove any cooked-on bits and degrease your pan just enough to move on to the final cleaning step.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
When the bacon is finished, degrease if necessary and place it to the side.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2023
You can do this the day before and degrease the cooled broth later.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2019
They will never, ever degrease those tire rims!
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
To clean and degrease a bird skin which requires such treatment to prepare for mounting, wash it first in lukewarm ammonia water with mild soap.
From Taxidermy by Pray, Leon Luther
It was largely connected with workplace exposure, including a woman who worked with the chemical while cleaning houses and factory workers who degreased and cleaned metal parts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
Among those customers, few seemed to welcome the idea of a degreased and sanitized replica of The World Famous Billy Goat.
From Chicago Tribune ● Nov. 13, 2013
Water trickled into the kitchen sink, as Sookie degreased the necklace.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
Stir in enough combined degreased pan juices, chicken broth and sherry to make 2 cups; simmer, stirring constantly, 2 minutes longer.
From The Perdue Chicken Cookbook by Perdue, Mitzi
Instead of extracting all the gelatinous matter from degreased bones, the practice of extracting about one half and carbonizing the residue is frequently adopted.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
Other government-funded research has established a link between autism and another solvent, trichloroethylene, also known as TCE, which has been used for dry cleaning, manufacturing and degreasing machines.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2025
Together, they focused on an attractive target, the commonly used degreasing and dry-cleaning agent perc, or perchloroethylene as chemists call it, which is non-harmful and produced in large quantities around the world.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2024
“Based on the established chemical composition, it can be concluded that it was some kind of a washing or degreasing agent,” police said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
Six days a week, over shifts as long as 12 hours, he stood in front of a rack of metal cylinders, degreasing their surfaces with paint thinner and buffing them with a handheld grinder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
The individual exposed to DDT, for example, is almost certain to be exposed to other liver-damaging hydrocarbons, which are so widely used as solvents, paint removers, degreasing agents, dry-cleaning fluids, and anesthetics.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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