Antonyms 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

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1. • Fuel
   • Hydrocarbon

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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

How to use kerosene in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Naseer Ahmad:

   Solar energy will also improve people’s quality of life by cutting their spending on kerosene and firewood.

5. 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.

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