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Word entry · 6 letters

sulfur

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"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
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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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