Usually means: Colorless, volatile, sweet-smelling solvent.
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  1. chloroform: Merriam-Webster
  2. chloroform: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chloroform: Collins English Dictionary
  4. chloroform: Vocabulary.com
  5. Chloroform, chloroform: Wordnik
  6. chloroform: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. chloroform: Wiktionary
  8. chloroform: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. chloroform: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. chloroform: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. chloroform: Dictionary.com
  12. chloroform: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Chloroform (data page), Chloroform (disambiguation), Chloroform (song), Chloroform: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Chloroform: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. chloroform: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. chloroform: Rhymezone
  17. Chloroform: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. chloroform: FreeDictionary.org
  19. chloroform: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. chloroform: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. chloroform: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chloroform: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. chloroform: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Chloroform: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. chloroform: Medical dictionary
  8. Chloroform: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chloroform: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. Glossary of chlorine and other chemical related terms (No longer online)
  3. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Chemical Fact Sheet (No longer online)

(Note: See chloroformed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (organic chemistry) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl₃; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic.
verb:  To treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform.

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