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: any of various volatile flammable petroleum distillates used especially as solvents or as motor fuels
Examples of benzine in a Sentence
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Someone had been killed in the chair, their body dragged to the closet, then later removed, soaked in benzine or ether and ignited.
—Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2022
Accordingly, his lieutenants doused his body in benzine, lighted it on fire and buried it in a nearby shell crater.
—Avi Selk, Washington Post, 20 May 2018
An earlier version of the headline on this article incorrectly spelled the chemical as benzine.
—Alexandra Berzon, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
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Word History
Etymology
German Benzin, from benz-
First Known Use
1835, in the meaning defined above
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“Benzine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/benzine. Accessed 14 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
benzine
noun
ben·zine
ˈben-ˌzēn
ben-ˈzēn
: any of various flammable chemicals from petroleum that evaporate easily and are used especially to dissolve fatty substances or as motor fuels
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