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Word entry · 6 letters

sulfur

Best crossword clue

"Yellow chemical element"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈsʌl.fə/Part of speech verb, nounSorted flrsuuStarts with SEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
1S2U3L4F5U6R

Definitions

  1. 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!”

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