Synonyms for dioxin
daɪˈɒk sɪndiox·in

Princeton's WordNet

1. dioxinnoun

   any of several toxic or carcinogenic hydrocarbons that occur as impurities in herbicides

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1. • Hydrocarbon

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1. List of paraphrases for "dioxin":

   dioxins, dioxin-like

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1. Neil Carman:

   They didn't want to make public how bad the situation was, it's a complicated situation but I can't believe that they are giving awards to people for this. It's kind of disgusting to me, because the huge concern is that a lot of material escaped and the flooding carried the dioxin to people's yards.

2. Ken Olson:

   The worst dioxin-contaminated site in Vietnam is Bien Hoa airbase, which is 30 miles north of Ho Chi Minh City, after President Nixon ordered the U.S. military to stop spraying Agent Orange in 1970, this is the site where all the Agent Orange barrels remaining in Vietnam were collected. The barrels were processed and shipped to Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean, where they were incinerated at sea in 1977.