denatured alcohol

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

   Broaderethyl alcohol

   Narrowermethylated spirit

Questions about denatured alcohol

What does denatured alcohol mean?

denatured alcohol means "ethyl alcohol that is unfit for drinking but is still useful for other purposes".

Is denatured alcohol a common word?

denatured alcohol is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.