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chloroform
noun
a toxic, carcinogenic, colorless, volatile liquid, CHCl, with a sweet taste, used as a solvent, fumigant, etc. and, formerly, as a general anesthetic
transitive verb
- to anesthetize with chloroform
- to kill with chloroform
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