methylated spirit

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   ethyl alcohol denatured with methyl alcohol to prevent its use as an alcoholic beverage

   Broaderdenatured alcohol

   Narrowersurgical spirit

Questions about methylated spirit

What does methylated spirit mean?

methylated spirit means "ethyl alcohol denatured with methyl alcohol to prevent its use as an alcoholic beverage".

Is methylated spirit a common word?

methylated spirit 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.