"greasen" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From grease + -en (verbal suffix).",
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      "form": "greasens",
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        {
          "ref": "1981, Jake MacDonald, Indian River, page 46:",
          "text": "His quick swim consisted of the usual small circle, ending on the same moss-greasened rocky ledge that he'd landed on since he was ten years old.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Catherine Dai, Bound feet, page 200:",
          "text": "Although she was a rich lady, she maintained some of her peasant mannerisms, like bringing out her age-greasened basket tea cosy which held the old tea pot and four cups inside.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Irwin Silber, Earl Robinson, Songs of the Great American West, page 148:",
          "text": "I'm goin' downtown, the telegraph to hire, And see if they need a colored man to greasen up the wire.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, S. Christopher, Gravitas, page 121:",
          "text": "Carbohydrate satiation makes the protein smell more delicious, so he floats the idea and, with assent, helps himself to a couple of drumsticks, sighing about the finger-greasening inadequacies of the plastic fork and knife.",
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        "To make greased or greasy"
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          "greasy"
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        "(rare, transitive) To make greased or greasy"
      ],
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  "word": "greasen"
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  "etymology_text": "From grease + -en (“made of, consisting of”).",
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        "Smeared with grease; greased"
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        "(archaic, Northern England) Smeared with grease; greased"
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    {
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        {
          "ref": "1981, Jake MacDonald, Indian River, page 46:",
          "text": "His quick swim consisted of the usual small circle, ending on the same moss-greasened rocky ledge that he'd landed on since he was ten years old.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Catherine Dai, Bound feet, page 200:",
          "text": "Although she was a rich lady, she maintained some of her peasant mannerisms, like bringing out her age-greasened basket tea cosy which held the old tea pot and four cups inside.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Irwin Silber, Earl Robinson, Songs of the Great American West, page 148:",
          "text": "I'm goin' downtown, the telegraph to hire, And see if they need a colored man to greasen up the wire.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, S. Christopher, Gravitas, page 121:",
          "text": "Carbohydrate satiation makes the protein smell more delicious, so he floats the idea and, with assent, helps himself to a couple of drumsticks, sighing about the finger-greasening inadequacies of the plastic fork and knife.",
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        }
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        "To make greased or greasy"
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          "greasy"
        ]
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        "(rare, transitive) To make greased or greasy"
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        "Smeared with grease; greased"
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        "(archaic, Northern England) Smeared with grease; greased"
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