DENATURED ALCOHOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does denatured alcohol mean? 

• DENATURED ALCOHOL (noun)
  The noun DENATURED ALCOHOL has 1 sense:

1. ethyl alcohol that is unfit for drinking but is still useful for other purposes

  Familiarity information: DENATURED ALCOHOL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DENATURED ALCOHOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

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)