DENATURED ALCOHOL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Ethyl alcohol that is unfit for drinking but is still useful for other purposes

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Nouns denoting substances

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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