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English-Galician CLUVI Dictionary, 2nd edition (revised version 2.2)

(Based on the CLUVI Corpus of the University of Vigo)



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In Galician
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- graveyard, gravitate, gravitation, gravitational, gravity, gravy, gray, grayheaded, graze, grease, greasy, great, great-aunt, great-grandchild, great-grandfather, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother, greatly, greatness


grease


- noun
- graxa

EN Her Christian name on her passport is disfigured by a blob of grease.
GL No seu pasaporte o nome de pía está esborranchado cunha mancha de graxa.
- Fonte: ASA (4994)


- transitive verb
- engraxar

EN Every morning, therefore, uncle Charles repaired to his outhouse but not before he had greased and brushed scrupulously his back hair and brushed and put on his tall hat.
GL Cada mañá, xa que logo, o tío Charles tiraba para a casiña non sen antes ter cepillado e engraxado meticulosamente os pelos do cocote e despois de cepillar e poñerse o sombreiro de copa.
- Fonte: RET (1343)