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BNC: 22257 COCA: 27029

chloroform

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chloroform /ˈklorəˌfoɚm/ noun
chloroform
/ˈklorəˌfoɚm/
noun
Learner's definition of CHLOROFORM
[noncount]
: a colorless poisonous liquid氯仿;三氯甲烷
◊ In the past, chloroform was used to make patients unconscious during medical operations. It is now usually used to dissolve other substances.氯仿以前被用作医疗手术的麻醉剂,现在通常被用作溶剂。

— chloroform

verb chloroforms; chloroformed; chloroforming [+ object]
BNC: 22257 COCA: 27029

chloroform

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noun

chlo·​ro·​form ˈklȯr-ə-ˌfȯrm How to pronounce chloroform (audio)
: a colorless volatile heavy toxic liquid CHCl3 with an ether odor used especially as a solvent

chloroform

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verb

chloroformed; chloroforming; chloroforms

transitive verb

: to treat with or as if with chloroform especially so as to produce anesthesia, insensibility, or death

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
When the Scottish obstetrician James Young Simpson began to give ether, and later chloroform, to laboring women in 1847, he was met with strong pushback, even as anesthesia was largely embraced for use in surgery. Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022 The documentary showed how, in 1978, Jeffrey Rignall was lured into Gacy’s car where he was hit in the face with a rag soaked in chloroform. Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 21 Apr. 2022 As part of the process to capture HFC-23, about 1,600 pounds a year of chloroform, hydrochloric acid, chlorine and hydrogen fluoride, all hazardous air pollutants, could be emitted into neighborhoods around its Louisville facility. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2021 While Queen Victoria swears by chloroform, Mama Dickinson insists Sue needs no drugs. Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021 Soldiers on the operating table were sedated by chloroform, which worked well, Zervos said. Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2021 Dioxin, cadmium, benzene, lead, naphthalene, nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, arsenic, furans, trichlorobenzene, chloroform, asbestos, mercury, phthalates: these are some of the by-products of papermaking. Rosemary Mcclure, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021 Dioxin, cadmium, benzene, lead, naphthalene, nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, arsenic, furans, trichlorobenzene, chloroform, asbestos, mercury, phthalates: these are some of the by-products of papermaking. Rosemary Mcclure, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021 Dioxin, cadmium, benzene, lead, naphthalene, nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, arsenic, furans, trichlorobenzene, chloroform, asbestos, mercury, phthalates: these are some of the by-products of papermaking. Rosemary Mcclure, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
Verb
Donor insemination continued largely underground, sans chloroform, until the 1950s. Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 30 July 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

French chloroforme, from chlor- + formyle formyl; from its having been regarded as a trichloride of this group

First Known Use

Noun

1838, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1848, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of chloroform was in 1838
BNC: 22257 COCA: 27029

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