ethanol (n.)

  1. 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

    [ Syn: ethyl alcohol , ethyl alcohol , fermentation alcohol , fermentation alcohol , grain alcohol , grain alcohol ]

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