methylene chloride

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   a nonflammable liquid used as a solvent and paint remover and refrigerant

   Synonymsdichloromethane

   Broaderchloride

Questions about methylene chloride

What does methylene chloride mean?

methylene chloride means "a nonflammable liquid used as a solvent and paint remover and refrigerant".

What is another word for methylene chloride?

Close synonyms include dichloromethane. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is methylene chloride a common word?

methylene chloride 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.