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DENATURED ALCOHOL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ethyl alcohol that is unfit for drinking but is still useful for other purposes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("denatured alcohol" is a kind of...):
ethanol; ethyl alcohol; fermentation alcohol; grain alcohol (the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "denatured alcohol"):
methylated spirit (ethyl alcohol denatured with methyl alcohol to prevent its use as an alcoholic beverage)
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