turpentine
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- noun
- /ˈtɜr.pən.taɪn/
- Specialized
:
trementina
- When I cleaned my brushes, I used turpentine as a solvent to remove the paint.
- turpentine and rosin
Examples
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Look, if we'd have gone to the garage and gotten the turpentine like I suggested, none of this would have happened.
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But Mother was busy in the kitchen, so I simply asked where the turpentine was, figuring that should do the trick.
Fiction book (1990) -
I just need more turpentine now.
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I will never be able to smell turpentine again... without thinking of this blessed afternoon.
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I'm going to get a little bit of turpentine on my brush.
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Out her opened window, the air is thin and smells of turpentine.
Fiction book (1991) -
Get the turpentine out of the harness shed.
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Others cut and hauled timber for a living or helped in the manufacture of turpentine.
Academic text (1990) -
Do I smell turpentine?
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The loft was a tornado of empty turpentine cans, paint-blobbed rags, and miscellaneous piles of clothing.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
A strong liquid used to thin oil paint and clean brushes
A strong-smelling liquid from pine resin that artists use to thin oil paint
A strong liquid used to thin oil paint and clean brushes
A strong liquid painters use to clean brushes after painting with oil
A sticky liquid from pine trees used to thin paint and clean brushes
Compounds
- Specialized
A sticky tree resin from the island of Chios used in medicine and to make varnish
- Specialized
A strong-smelling liquid from pine resin that artists use to thin oil paint
A plant from western United States with a strong smell and sticky resin on its leaves
A low, sticky plant with narrow leaves and small yellow flower heads that smells of resin
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Etymology
The word turpentine comes from an old Greek word terebinth, the name of a tree that gives a sticky sap called 'resin'. That's why turpentine now means the strong oily substance, often from pine trees, that people use to thin paint and clean brushes.