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usually uncountable, plural gravies
(countable, uncountable) A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy. examples
(Southern US) A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce. examples
(uncountable, chiefly Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta. examples
(uncountable, India, Singapore) Curry sauce. quotations examples
With this the hostess poured two or three spoonfuls of the gravy of the curry on to the rice opposite to each person.
1879, The Sunday at Home, volume 26, page 342
Now it seems that Pa Senik was a little deaf. Awang noticed that his father-in-law sometimes poured the gravy of his curry on his rice and that sometimes he sucked it up.
1906, Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, "Pa Senik and his Son-in-Law Awang", Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 59-60
This is strained with a piece of cloth or a strainer and the green liquid forms the gravy of the curry.
1992, Khammān Khonkhai, The Teachers of Mad Dog Swamp
Return flaked fish to curry gravy and bring to the boil.
2007, Geok Boi Lee, Classic Asian Noodles, Marshall Cavendish, page 158
(uncountable, informal) Unearned gain. examples
(uncountable, informal) Extra benefit. examples
third-person singular simple present gravies, present participle gravying, simple past and past participle gravied
To make gravy. quotations examples
I mean simply this — that the process of canning and preserving or of gravying and saucing frequently removes the most vitally essential acids and salts […]
1907, Edmond Raymond Moras, Autology (Study Thyself) and Autopathy (Cure Thyself), page 67
Dola and another woman were so busy frying and grilling and buttering and gravying that they didn't even notice Bruce's existence.
2013, Ivan Doig, Bucking the Sun, page 103