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- adjective Having been deprived of its nature, having had its nature changed.
- adjective Of alcohol made undrinkable, by adding a
toxin orunpalatable substance, but still useful as a fuel or solvent. Traditionally by the addition ofmethanol (wood alcohol ). - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
denature .
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- adjective changed in nature or natural quality
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Examples
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No difference - except that the ethanol put in gasoline is "denatured" - made unfit for human consumption.
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No difference - except that the ethanol put in gasoline is "denatured" - made unfit for human consumption.
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I really can't agree with most of the recent copyedits to the article; the language has been systematically denatured, which is a bad thing.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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What you end up with is a tale told in broad strokes, akin to the kind of denatured film biographies the studios produced in the 1940s and 1950s.
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The federal government requires it to be "denatured" by adding gasoline to it so that it is not fit for human consumption.
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Germany but, unfortunately, the failures in growth were considered to be the result of ingredients in the diet that have been "denatured" by purification, rather than the lack of some hitherto unrecognized nutrient (s).
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A step toward a wider application to industrial purposes has been taken by the law permitting the sale of so-called "denatured" (137) alcohol without the tax for revenue.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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Too often this "denatured" child of the classroom is the only child the teacher knows.
The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale Lewis Madison Terman 1916
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If you’re really lucky, they’ll fry it in peanut oil, raw, not denatured, which is really healthy and adds great flavor!
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Most importantly, we completely stayed away from cheap, inferior protein sources such as denatured sodium and calcium caseinate.
Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34;Nutrition 2010
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