noun
- 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.
- synonyms: ethyl alcohol, fermentation alcohol, grain alcohol
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