oiling
The word “oiling” has 2 syllables: oil-ing
It's pronounced as /ˈɔɪlɪŋ/
What is synonym and antonym for oiling?
In the thesaurus, “oiling” has 24 synonyms and 7 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for oiling along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for oiling
- administering
- administration
- applying
- bathing
- creaming
- dosing
- dousing
- dowsing
- drenching
- grease job
- greasing
- lube
- lube job
- lubing
- lubricating
- rubbing
- slicking
- soaking
- sousing
- treatment
- washing
- watering
- waxing
- wetting
Antonyms for oiling
- coarsening
- dehydrating
- drying
- parching
- roughening
- roughing
- searing
Meanings of oiling
- verb
- To lubricate with oil.
- To grease with oil for cooking.
- noun
- An application of oil.
Example Sentences
- He spent the afternoon oiling the wooden furniture.
- The mechanic is oiling the gears to prevent rust.
- She’s oiling her hair for extra shine.
- The routine includes oiling the machine parts every week.
- I was oiling the pan before frying the vegetables.
On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to oiling, such as: administering, administration, applying, bathing, coarsening, creaming, dehydrating.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
Related Words
daubing
- anointing
- bedaubing
- befouling
- begriming
- bemiring
- besmearing
- besmirching
- blackening
- coating
- collying
- confusing
- contaminating
- crocking
- defiling
- dirtying
- disarranging
- disarraying
- discoloring
- disheveling
- dishevelling
- disordering
- distaining
- draggling
- fouling
- gauming
- greasing
- griming
- gumming
- jumbling
- larding
- messing
- miring
- mucking
- muddling
- muddying
- oiling
- painting
- pitching
- plastering
- polluting
- smearing
- smirching
- smudging
- soiling
- staining
- sullying
- tainting
- tarring
larding
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- bedaubing
- befouling
- begriming
- bemiring
- besmearing
- besmirching
- blackening
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- edging in
- fouling
- gauming
- greasing
- griming
- gumming
- injecting
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- inserting
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- introducing
- miring
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- oiling
- painting
- pitching
- plastering
- shoving
- smearing
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- smudging
- soiling
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- sullying
- tarring
- thrusting
- weaving
- wedging
- working in
waxing
- accelerating
- acceleration
- access
- accession
- accretion
- accrual
- accumulating
- accumulation
- addition
- advance
- advancement
- aggrandizement
- altering
- ambush
- amplifying
- animate
- annihilating
- annihilation
- appreciating
- ascent
- augmentation
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- ballooning
- bathing
- beating
- beating the pants off
- becoming
- beefing up
- besting
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- blow
- blowing away
- blowing up
- bombing
- booming
- boost
- bourgeoning
- break
- breakdown
- breaking
- breakthrough
- broadening
- budding
- building up
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- bulking
- burgeoning
- burying
- capping
- changing
- check
- climb
- climbing
- clobbering
- collapse
- comedown
- coming
- confusion
- conquering
- conquest
- count
- creaming
- crescendoing
- crescent
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- cresting
- crop
- crushing
- crushing defeat
- cultivation
- cumulation
- debacle
- defeasance
- destroying
- destruction
- developing
- development
- dilating
- disaster
- discomfiture
- dispatching
- distending
- distention
- doing in
- doubling
- dousing
- downthrow
- dowsing
- drenching
- drubbing
- dusting
- eating alive
- eclipsing
- elaboration
- embarrassment
- enlargement
- enlarging
- escalating
- escalation
- evolution
- evolvement
- exaggeration
- exceeding
- excelling
- expanding
- expansion
- extension
- extermination
- failure
- fall
- finishing
- flattening
- fleshing out
- flight
- flourishing
- flowering
- fructifying
- gain
- gaining
- germinating
- germination
- getting
- getting big
- going
- greasing
- growing
- growth
- heightening
- hiding
- hike
- hurdling
- improvement
- incorporation
- increase
- increasing
- increment
- increscent
- inflating
- inflation
- insuccess
- intensification
- intensifying
- jumping
- killing
- knocking off
- knocking over
- ko
- lacing
- licking
- living
- loss
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- markup
- massacre
- mastering
- mastery
- maturation
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- maximization
- merger
- metamorphosing
- modifying
- mounting
- multiplication
- multiplying
- mushrooming
- mutating
- nonsuccess
- nosing out
- oiling
- optimization
- outdistancing
- outdoing
- outfighting
- outshining
- outstripping
- overbearing
- overcoming
- overmatching
- overpowering
- overthrow
- overthrowing
- overtopping
- overwhelming
- paddling
- pasting
- peaking
- piling up
- pipping
- produce
- production
- progress
- proliferating
- proliferation
- promotion
- prosperity
- pullulating
- raise
- rebuff
- redoubling
- repulse
- retreat
- reverse
- rise
- rising
- rocketing
- rolling up
- romp
- rout
- routing
- ruin
- running
- running circles around
- running rings around
- scalping
- scoring
- setback
- shambles
- shellacking
- shutout
- sinking
- skinning
- skunking
- skyrocketing
- slaughter
- slaughtering
- slicking
- smoking
- smothering
- snowballing
- snowing under
- soaking
- sousing
- spread
- spreading
- sprouting
- stacking up
- step-up
- stretching
- subduing
- subjugating
- subjugation
- succeeding
- success
- surge
- surging
- surmounting
- surpassing
- sweeping
- swell
- swelling
- taking
- thickening
- thrashing
- thriving
- throwing
- topping
- transcending
- transfiguring
- transforming
- transmuting
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- tromping
- trouncing
- turning
- unfolding
- up
- upending
- upgrade
- upping
- upset
- upsetting
- upsurge
- upswing
- upturn
- vanquishing
- vanquishment
- vegetation
- viable
- walkover
- walloping
- washing
- washout
- watering
- wetting
- whaling
- whapping
- whipping
- whitewashing
- whomping
- whopping
- whupping
- widening
- wiping the floor with
- wiping the ground with
- worsting