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/ˈluːbrɪkeɪt/ · verb
To make slippery or smooth (normally to minimize friction) by applying a lubricant..
If your bicycle chain is squeaking you should lubricate it.
They listened with wonder and pride at their album as it played several times throughout the afternoon, with Cosmo lubricating them with beer and whiskey.
At Göbekli Tepe, a site in what is now modern-day Turkey we'll talk about more below, hunter-gatherers convened regularly throughout the tenth to eighth millennia BCE to feast on gazelles, build circular structures, and erect enormous T-shaped limestone pillars carved with mysterious pictograms and animal forms–probably all while well-lubricated with beer.
Use lubricate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lubricate means To make slippery or smooth (normally to minimize friction) by applying a lubricant..
Common synonyms include lube, oil, grease.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
If your bicycle chain is squeaking you should lubricate it.
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