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
    1. To lubricate with oil.
    2. To grease with oil for cooking.
  • noun
    1. 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

  • adding
  • anointing
  • appending
  • attaching
  • bedaubing
  • befouling
  • begriming
  • bemiring
  • besmearing
  • besmirching
  • blackening
  • coating
  • cramming
  • cutting in
  • daubing
  • dirtying
  • edging in
  • fouling
  • gauming
  • greasing
  • griming
  • gumming
  • injecting
  • inlaying
  • inserting
  • insetting
  • insinuating
  • installing
  • intercalating
  • interfiling
  • interjecting
  • interlining
  • interpolating
  • interposing
  • interspersing
  • introducing
  • miring
  • mucking
  • muddying
  • oiling
  • painting
  • pitching
  • plastering
  • shoving
  • smearing
  • smirching
  • smudging
  • soiling
  • staining
  • 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
  • augmenting
  • ballooning
  • bathing
  • beating
  • beating the pants off
  • becoming
  • beefing up
  • besting
  • bettering
  • blow
  • blowing away
  • blowing up
  • bombing
  • booming
  • boost
  • bourgeoning
  • break
  • breakdown
  • breaking
  • breakthrough
  • broadening
  • budding
  • building up
  • buildup
  • bulking
  • burgeoning
  • burying
  • capping
  • changing
  • check
  • climb
  • climbing
  • clobbering
  • collapse
  • comedown
  • coming
  • confusion
  • conquering
  • conquest
  • count
  • creaming
  • crescendoing
  • crescent
  • crescive
  • 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
  • lubricating
  • markup
  • massacre
  • mastering
  • mastery
  • maturation
  • maturing
  • 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

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