to pour oil on the fire (idiom) / fig. to aggravate a situation / to enrage people and make matters worse
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oil refinery
lard
butter / beef tallow
petroleum pipeline
crude oil
asphalt / tar / pitch
tar
kerosene
vegetable oil
to secretively take advantage of others or public resources for minor personal gain / to grope a woman or girl
turpentine
(lit.) to add oil and vinegar (idiom) / (fig.) to embellish / to exaggerate (a story, a narration etc)
shoe polish
tarred road / asphalt road
carburetor
peanut oil
oil extraction / oil recovery
glossy / shiny
glossy / gleaming / shiny (due to greasiness) / slick / greasy / oily
lit. oily and shiny to the point of reflecting (idiom) / lustrous
sleek / shiny and smooth
varnish
to mimeograph
glib / oily-mouthed and smooth talking
greasy dirt
dense and sticky substance / (dialect) wily old fox
dipstick / oil measuring rod
oil sump
fuel depot / fuel farm
oil crop (rape, peanut, soy, sesame etc) / oil-bearing crop
Youxuan, a kind of a pastry
Chinese red pine
oil cake / press cake
nectarine
Chinese wood-oil tree (Vernicia fordii)
oil palm
olive (Olea europaea)
oil and gas
oilfields and gasfields
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27