ALL meanings of chloroform
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C c - uncountable noun chloroform Chloroform is a colourless liquid with a strong sweet smell, which makes you unconscious if you breathe its vapour. 3
- noun chloroform a heavy volatile liquid with a sweet taste and odour, used as a solvent and cleansing agent and in refrigerants: formerly used as an inhalation anaesthetic. Formula: CHCl3 3
- noun chloroform a toxic, carcinogenic, colorless, volatile liquid, CHCl3, with a sweet taste, used as a solvent, fumigant, etc. and, formerly, as a general anesthetic 3
- verb transitive chloroform to anesthetize with chloroform 3
- verb transitive chloroform to kill with chloroform 3
- noun chloroform Chloroform is a colorless liquid with a strong, sweet smell, used in propellants and resins, as a solvent, and sometimes as an anesthetic. 3
- noun chloroform Also called trichloromethane. Chemistry, Pharmacology. a colorless, volatile, nonflammable, slightly water-soluble, pungent, sweet-tasting liquid, CHCl 3 , usually derived from acetone, acetaldehyde, or ethyl alcohol by the reaction of chloride of lime: used chiefly in medicine as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic. 1
- verb with object chloroform to administer chloroform to, especially in order to anesthetize, make unconscious, or kill. 1
- verb with object chloroform to put chloroform on (a cloth, object, etc.). 1
- noun chloroform chemical used as anaesthetic 1
- transitive verb chloroform make unconscious using chloroform 1
- noun chloroform A colorless, volatile, sweet-smelling liquid used as a solvent and formerly as a general anesthetic. 1
- noun chloroform (chemistry) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl3; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic. 0
- verb chloroform To treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform. 0