Definitions
treat with sulphur in order to preserve
Word origin
From Middle English sulphur, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur, from sulpur itself of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English swefl and largely displaced brimstone.
Used in a sentence
“It went like this: first, we were cavemen, then there was ancient Greece, then Rome burned (cue sulfur-odor FX), then there was the Great Depression, and, finally, we reached the modern age.”
““She shall be blasted like a riven oak! Drowned in sulphur! Torn by whirlwinds!””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Yellow chemical element”6 letters
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