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carbolically

carbolically adverb: with carbolic acid.

Adverb

carbolically (not comparable)

  1. With carbolic acid.
    • Personally I had these suspicions at the time, and I took every precaution, by washing my hands carbolically after seeing a patient with a sore throat of any kind […]1881, Veterinary Journal
    • The young minds had first to be emptied, and then carbolically scoured, before they could be filled with The Truth.2012, Ken Chadwick, Evacuee: Or Sins and Comeuppances

Origin of carbolically

From carbolic + -ally.

Questions about carbolically

What does carbolically mean?
Carbolically means with carbolic acid.
What part of speech is carbolically?
Carbolically is an adverb.

Words near carbolically in the dictionary

  1. carbolfuchsin
  2. carbolic
  3. carbolic acid
  4. carbolic soap
  5. carbolic soaps
  6. carbolically
  7. carbolics
  8. carboligase
  9. carboligases
  10. carboligation
  11. carboligations

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