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A combination of ethyl alcohol and methyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent, and usually free of taxes on alcohol; it is poisonous if drunk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, countable, uncountable
Examples
- Near-synonym: denatured alcohol (usually coinstantial)
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: denatured alcohol
Antonyms: none provided
ethyl alcohol denatured with methyl alcohol to prevent its use as an alcoholic beverage
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: denatured alcohol
Narrower terms: surgical spirit
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
денатурат
(denaturat)
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Catalan:
alcohol desnaturalitzat
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Chinese Mandarin:
甲基化酒精
(jiǎjīhuà jiǔjīng)
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Danish:
husholdningssprit
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Dutch:
spiritus
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Dutch:
brandspiritus
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Finnish:
denaturoitu sprii
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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French:
alcool dénaturé
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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German:
Spiritus
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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German:
Brennspiritus
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Hungarian:
denaturált szesz
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Indonesian:
spiritus
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Irish:
biotáille mheitileach
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Norwegian Bokmål:
rødsprit
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
raudsprit
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Polish:
denaturat
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Russian:
денатурат
(denaturat)
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Serbo-Croatian:
денатурирани алкохол
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Serbo-Croatian:
denaturirani alkohol
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Swedish:
rödsprit
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
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Turkish:
ispirto
— ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent
