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Synonyms for kerosene
ˈkɛr əˌsin, ˈkær-, ˌkɛr əˈsin, ˌkær-kerosene

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  1. kerosenenoun

    Synonyms:
    kero, lamp oil, coal oil

  2. kerosenenoun

    A petroleum based thin and colorless fuel; paraffin.

    The kerosene lasted all winter, so the furnace kept us always warm.

    Synonyms:
    lamp oil, kero, coal oil

Princeton's WordNet2.3 / 18 votes

  1. kerosene, kerosine, lamp oil, coal oilnoun

    a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters

    Synonyms:
    coal oil, kerosine, lamp oil

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  1. kerosenenoun

    Synonyms:
    coal oil, petroleum

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  1. List of known nicknames for "Kerosene":

    Mae Bad Boy, Roger Cobernus, Gringo

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  1. Doc Rivers:

    I loved it until Vinny Del Negro got the guy on fire and then they would tell me to go stop him, we used to call him Vinny Kerosene some nights because I would go in and go, ‘The guy’s on fire. I’ve got to guard him?’ We would laugh about it.

  2. John Thurman:

    I was really fortunate in the fact that the outside of my body -- I wasn't cut, I wasn't burned, a lot of the jet fuel splashed up into our area, and burned some people fairly significantly. However, being exposed basically to kerosene...I had severe smoke inhalation.

  3. Tracy Alvino:

    Cuomo lit the match and the nursing homes were the kerosene. It was a failure at every level. The nursing homes were unable to protect nursing home patients after accepting COVID patients, if the March 25 order wasn’t issued, countless lives would have been saved. These were preventable deaths.

  4. Thomas Brueck:

    To substitute 100 percent of the kerosene use today, we will not do it with algae alone. We need a combination of different technologies to actually enable that substitution.

  5. John Thurman:

    I would take the Metro down and we would stop at the Pentagon station, there'd just be this feeling of dread even pulling through the station. The first time I was back in the building, I could still smell that kerosene smell, which was unnerving.


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