List of antonyms from "offshoot" to antonyms from "oil the wheels"


Discover our 127 antonyms available for the terms "oil the wheels, oft, ogled, oftentimes, ogee" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.

Definition of the day : « oil »

  • verb lubricate
Example sentences :
  • The bucket is perforated at the bottom, and being elevated, the oil drains off.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens » by Henry Bore
  • It is this oil that causes bananas to disagree with some persons.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • Then would Flossy be ready with her gentle drops of oil to soothe the ruffles.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • Measure the vinegar and oil and add them to the dry ingredients.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • She was good, and she had been anointed with the oil of gladness.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • I'll have to burn some midnight oil, but I can visualize the bridge.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Mortifications of the flesh and fasts purify, not oil or water.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • It is said that from the head and the feet of Nicholas flowed two fountains of oil which cured every ill.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • You may add to it some hard-boiled yolk of egg, mashed in the oil.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • I should have believed so, if my hand which had clutched that other hand, had not been slippery with oil.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson