chloroform

Borrowed from French chloroforme, portmanteau of terchloride (tertiary chloride, trichloride) and formyle (CH, an obsolete radical of formic acid) by Jean-Baptiste Dumas, from 1834. By surface analysis, chloro- +‎ -form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɒɹə(ʊ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)m/

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• Hyphenation: chlo‧ro‧form
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m

chloroform (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl₃; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic.

   Some assume that chloroform is a gas because it was given by inhalation.

• trichloromethane
• Guthrie's sweet whiskey, sweet whiskey

chloroform (third-person singular simple present chloroforms, present participle chloroforming, simple past and past participle chloroformed)

1. To treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform.

• methylene chloride
• carbon tetrachloride
• fluoroform
• bromoform
• iodoform

chloroform (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) chloroform

• IPA^(key): [ˈxloroform]
• Hyphenation: chlo‧ro‧form

chloroform m inan

1. (organic chemistry) chloroform

• “chloroform”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “chloroform”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “chloroform”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

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• Hyphenation: chlo‧ro‧form

chloroform m (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) chloroform

• “chloroform” in Van Dale Onlinewoordenboek, Van Dale Lexicografie, 2007.

Internationalism; compare English chloroform, French chloroforme, German Chloroform.

• IPA^(key): /xlɔˈrɔ.fɔrm/

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• Rhymes: -ɔfɔrm
• Syllabification: chlo‧ro‧form

chloroform m inan (related adjective chloroformowy)

1. (organic chemistry) chloroform

• chloroform in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• chloroform in Polish dictionaries at PWN

chloroform (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) chloroform
   • 1935, Joe Corrie, chapter 7, in The Income:

     Afore I kent where I was I got a smeek o' chloroform.

     Before I knew where I was I got a puff of chloroform.

• IPA^(key): [ˈxlɔrɔfɔrm]

chloroform m inan (relational adjective chloroformový)

1. (organic chemistry) chloroform

   Synonym: trichlórmetán

• “chloroform”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025